Tag: Jean-Paul Sartre

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  August 14, 2026

  Reading Camus as a Sociologist

  I recently read Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus. I had somehow managed to avoid it until now, despite its reputation as one of the most accessible texts associated with existentialist philosophy. What caught my attention almost immediately was its opening question: suicide. It is a striking way of entering philosophy, because Camus does not…

• May 31, 2026

  The Myth of Universal Hispanicity: Capitalist Extractivism, Alterity, and the Internal Colony

  The narrative that the Spanish Empire executed a sort of universal charity in America crumbles entirely when propaganda is confronted with harsh demographic and historical reality. This romanticized view of the conquest attempts to sell the idea that an entire continent was unified under a single language, pioneering laws, and altruistic access to higher education.…