Telos 205 · Winter 2023
Forms of War

Every war forces us to reconsider the character of war and the forms that it can take. In Telos 205, we consider the different ways of understanding the relationship between conflict and insight in war as well as examples of how the conceptualization of conflict affects the outbreak, progress, and outcome of wars.

Shards and Specters of the New World Order
Casting Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies as Critique
by Timothy W. Luke

In this wide-ranging and incisive new volume, Timothy Luke traces the trajectory of Soviet and post-Soviet geopolitics, from the ideological dynamics of revolutionary Russia through the Cold War and the "War on Terror" to, most recently, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Telos 204 · Fall 2023
Quandaries of Race and Gender Theory

In this issue of Telos, we investigate the theories and ideologies that have transformed the politics of race and gender over the last half century, as well as the quandaries this transformation has given rise to in the present.

Approaches: Drugs and Altered States
by Ernst Jünger

Combining elements of memoir and critical reflection on the history of mind-altering substances in society, Approaches attests to Jünger’s belief that drugs can facilitate a deeper spiritual journey into dimensions of human existence that have been eclipsed by the ambient noise of modern life.

Telos 203 · Summer 2023
The Manifold Foundations of Human Rights

The crucial problem running through the essays in Telos 203 is the difficulty of establishing a unified foundation for human rights given the variety of cultural, legal, moral, and political perspectives that we find in the world regarding the question of how we relate to each other as humans.

Telos 202 · Spring 2023
Narratives of Belonging

Telos 202 aims at stimulating a reflection upon the tension between “identity” as a concept and idea that is deeply entrenched in our philosophical, political, and social language and a more flexible, conceptually and politically open articulation of humans’ quest for belonging.

Screens of Power
Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society
by Timothy W. Luke
With a Foreword by Ronald J. Deibert

This new edition of Screens of Power reintroduces the innovative critique of informational culture, politics, and society outlined by Timothy W. Luke in Telos and other publications during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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