Alcibiades being advised by Socrates. A painting by François-André Vincent. Notice that behind Socrates is his daemon, the divinity that inspires him.

Kristina Queen of Sweden hired Descartes, the father of the modern cogito, as a philosophical counsellor already in 1649. She subsequently resigned from her position, judging there was a more important matter than being a queen: what could possibly more important than the kingdom of Sweden? Now offering consultations on demand.  

Drawing of the Big Bang by my daughter Svea, 7. In my practice as a philosophical counselor, I often encourage the counselee to start with a tabula rasa within the cosy security of my parlour. The empty table is a process by which we authorise us to think as if all our certainties should be…

Qui a tué le poète? continues its journey across the world. Now in Swedish language thanks to the publisher Palaver Press. If you are in Stockholm on November 14, join us for a launch party with 20 poets on stage and pianist Peter Knudsen at Landet.  

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Ensemblance   The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps   The theoretical message of the word ensemblance is quite simple: the book shows that discourses of ultra-unity in human ensembles are often ideological fabulations connected to nationalism, manipulation, groupthink, power coalitions, social control, political neo-romanticism, etc. These can be effective historically and socially because modern…

Anticipating Anthrobotic Minds: The Integration of Analytical, Dialectical and Crealectical Intelligences https://en.unesco.org/events/transforming-future-seminar-7-anticipating-anthrobotic-minds Unesco Headquarters Paris 14h15 – 29 October Abstract “An understanding of effectual anticipations regarding the present and the future cannot ignore our “anthrobotic” interplays, emerging from our sociotechnical assemblages of humans and algorithms (de Miranda et al., 2016). If we are to avoid…