Philosophical Dictionary

The third part of the "Philosophy Carol" series in which you meet the Ghost of Philosophy Present, coming along for a random and musical ride. You see how philosophy currently works in the world.

Plenty of people online call themselves free thinkers. The word became a battle cry in 1713, Nietzsche wanted nothing to do with it, and Socrates offered his poverty as proof of honesty while Spinoza turned down a professorship. Can you think freely when someone pays you, and who pays the free thinkers?

In 1990 Gilles Deleuze wrote five pages arguing that Foucault’s disciplinary society was already ending. Prisons and factories were giving way to codes, access cards, endless training and debt. What did he mean by dividuals, why does the panopticon meme get Foucault backwards, and was Deleuze right?