ANIMALS: An animal welfare bill was discussed in the British Parliament. Can vertebrates be recognized as sentient beings, and does this mean that animals have the same – or similar – rights as humans?
Criticism of modernity: The neoliberal "happiness dispositive's" imperative of happiness regards pain as a failure, a weakness. The pain has become dumb, and consequently speechless and meaningless. But is the consequence that the neoliberal paradigm of freedom is disintegrating?