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• The Virtue Epistemologist

  

  Either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects. Since the actual infinite regress is of reach for finite humans, we must fall into the circularity, the Cartesian sort of circularity, wherein we use our fundamental faculties (intuition and deduction, as they might be) in order to attain a picture of ourselves and the world around us (ourselves in the lap of a benevolent omnipotence) that enables us to endorse our use of those very faculties. There is no hope for a properly supportive perspective on our basic faculties that is not acquired by means of such inquiry.

  Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Ernest Sosa.

  Painting: Harry Adams.

• Through cellophane darkly & other poems

  

  Ketamine karoake
  and her form is done.
  You have to pay
  to see

  New visual poetry by Sarah James.

• Derrida’s Seminars: Writing Before Writing Before the Letter

  

  After beginning with the end, we have ended up at the beginning. The newest of Jacques Derrida’s seminars is the oldest yet published. Encountering deconstruction in the context of this newest older publication can help to shake our conviction that we know what was meant by it.

  Jonathan Basile on Jacques Derrida‘s newly published seminar.

• The Anatomical Venus

  

  Many people find the Anatomical Venus disquieting. Grotesque and beautiful, spectacle and teaching tool, seemingly both dead and alive, she tends to elicit a strong emotional engagement, deep fascination, and intellectual uncertainty. This uncertainty, and the feelings of uneasiness it provokes, can be understood via the concept of The Uncanny.

  Richard Marshall talks to Joanna Ebenstein about the Anatomical Venus.

• Fridge qs and other poems

  

  Do you have a fridge in your car?

  New visual and asemic poetry by Freya Harwood Bond.

• The Constitution of Selves: Locke and the Person Led View

  

  Our lives are unified, ongoing events that unfold over time and constitute a single, persisting person who is the right kind of entity to be the target of different kinds of practical concerns at different phases of her life. Infants are to be taught and nurtured and adults to be held morally responsible. So it is true of persons as wholes that they are beings who can be held morally responsible for what they do, but not throughout the whole of their lives.

  Continuing the End Times series, Richard Marshall interviews Marya Schechtman.

• It Doesn’t Matter the Country: Learning the Meaning of Borders on Raton Pass

  

  Borders: blocking bodies and allowing capital. A border can be innocuous to me because white Americans are capital embodied. The invisibility of the Colorado-New Mexico border disguises a colonial power relation by making it look natural. The US-Mexico border is visible, but we believe it to be natural too. Prehistoric. Foregone.

  By Caroline Tracey.

• A + E and others poems

  

  Broken into pieces by spies. Do you know my sister?
  What is it you want with her? Amber spring showers.
  Revolution is a recipe we can’t win. A hole haunts my bathtub of gin.
  When I was a boy I pretended to drown every time
  my pearly toe blue a swimming pool. I want to sigh a kite.
  For the past three nights I’ve been sleeping in A + E.
  Electricity has made a mess of me.

  By Charlie Baylis.

• espionage

  

  “… and then I did remember, but at this stage it was too late—the pages were all ruined, out of my hands, and then there were the hanging children.”

  New fiction and art by Roman Muradov.

• The Bastards of Pizzofalcone

  

  In the Bastard books, we have contemporary Naples in all its noisy complexity, and a group of cops whose insights into crime arise as much from their own imperfections as from their training and experience.

  Rohan Maitzen on Maurizio de Giovanni‘s Bastards of Pizzofalcone series.

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