Raffaello Palandri

From today’s Book of the Day, I have chosen the following sentence for a deeper analysis. Primitive societies are societies without a State. This factual judgment, accurate in itself, actually hides an opinion, a value judgment that immediately throws doubt on the possibility of constituting political anthropology as a strict science. The extraordinary density of this sentence lies not in its…

Today’s Book of the Day is Society Against the State, written by Pierre Clastres in 1974. Pierre Clastres was a French anthropologist and political philosopher whose work transformed political anthropology by challenging one of its most deeply entrenched assumptions, namely that the state represents the natural culmination of social complexity, and whose extensive field research among Indigenous…

Work has perhaps suffered the greatest philosophical corruption of any concept inherited from modern civilisation because virtually every political ideology, religious doctrine, economic theory, legal system, and cultural tradition speaks confidently about work while referring to radically different realities that merely happen to share the same linguistic signifier, thereby creating the illusion…

Nyx Surprised – Photography by Raffaello Palandri

The greatest intellectual scam produced by capitalist civilisation is not the creation of frameworks themselves, because humans have always created symbolic structures, conceptual maps, languages, methods, and systems of memory through which intelligence extends itself across time and space, but rather the ideological transformation of those structures into substitutes for the living intelligence…

Education, once subjected to ontological fracture, multiplicity overload, and revolutionary reconstruction, reaches the unavoidable point where its internal contradictions cease to remain confined within classrooms, universities, curricula, and institutions, because education is never merely an administrative arrangement but one of the fundamental mechanisms through which societies reproduce…

Educational stress exposes the contradiction between potential and structures, forcing society to choose between universal cultivation and selective privilege.

The preceding philosophical dismantling of education and the subsequent exposure of its irreducible multiplicity do not culminate in resignation, intellectual relativism, or liberal tolerance for permanent contradiction, because the recognition that existing educational systems are historically contingent rather than ontologically necessary immediately generates the ethical obligation to…

Roofs Geometries – Photography by Raffaello Palandri

AI Governance is still predominantly understood as a regulatory discipline whose purpose is to fulfil legal requirements, document risks and introduce control mechanisms that make the use of Artificial Intelligence transparent and auditable, although this perspective fails to capture the actual nature of governance because it reduces governance to compliance and therefore overlooks the fact that…

AI Governance wird noch immer überwiegend als regulatorische Disziplin verstanden, deren Aufgabe darin besteht, gesetzliche Anforderungen zu erfüllen, Risiken zu dokumentieren und Kontrollmechanismen einzuführen, die den Einsatz Künstlicher Intelligenz nachvollziehbar und überprüfbar machen sollen, obwohl diese Sichtweise den eigentlichen Charakter von Governance verfehlt, weil sie Governance auf…

Education, once stripped of the illusion of conceptual unity, no longer appears as a single domain of coherent meaning but instead reveals itself as a dense superposition of incompatible epistemic regimes that coexist within the same institutional, linguistic, and historical space without ever resolving into synthesis, such that religious catechesis, capitalist training systems, humanist liberal…

Under capitalism, educators become nodes of forced integration, mediating institutional demands without final resolution, suspending pedagogical practice within perpetual, unresolved compliance.

Education is commonly presented as one of the few concepts capable of escaping ideological conflict through the comforting fiction of universality, because governments invoke it to legitimise authority, corporations celebrate it as the engine of productivity, religious institutions praise it as the transmission of sacred truth, families regard it as preparation for adulthood, and markets reduce…

At Dawn Shining – Photography by Raffaello Palandri

A civilisation reaches the point of sociopolitical stress collapse when the normative vocabulary sustaining its institutional legitimacy continues expanding while its material capacity to embody that vocabulary progressively disintegrates, producing societies that celebrate rights with unprecedented rhetorical intensity while simultaneously constructing economic, technological, ecological, and…

The collapse exposes a civilisation’s exhaustion, proving limitless accumulation cannot coexist with universal dignity, prompting alternatives beyond capitalist modernity.