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What is philosophy supposed to do for us — not as an academic exercise, but as a way of navigating the wreckage of modern life? The opening episode lays out the project of Blasting Theory and turns to Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History to ask how theory might still “blast open the continuum of history” in an age of algorithms, archives, and endless feeds.
By MagadhWhat is philosophy supposed to do for us — not as an academic exercise, but as a way of navigating the wreckage of modern life? The opening episode lays out the project of Blasting Theory and turns to Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History to ask how theory might still “blast open the continuum of history” in an age of algorithms, archives, and endless feeds.