Currently, we publish essays and ongoing series on Substack and develop media that translates our research and experiments into shared cultural work. Today, our Substack is the primary home for this writing; next, we are expanding into a fuller production slate—podcasts, interviews, Jam Sessions, short courses, and live programs—designed to build an inquisitive and team-building audience that desires to be part of the evolution of the Khora platform.
We seek to provide philosophical media that can be a Socratic gadfly and lure to philosophy in our current social landscape (online and in person). This work is crucially needed as philosophy departments in the US come under particular threat, and as its foothold globally in the academy, and the precarity of the academy itself, leaves it vulnerable. Even under better circumstances, academic philosophy tends toward treating the discipline itself as a technical field of research, which can all too often slide into dismissing or diminishing the role of philosophy as a transformative practice. Given this period of transition, we hope to provide within and beyond the academy opportunities to build and develop new sites for deep philosophy.
Through Khora, users are able to engage with philosophical content and subsequently to participate in related events and courses. In turn the “productions”, online and in person, will provide both new users and content generated out of those spaces for Khora. We thus aim to build a dynamic and symbiotic system between our platforms and productions.
