Interventions

A Call for Ordinary Diplomacy of and by the People

Oscillations

02 Oct 2025

By Adam Louis-Klein and Justin Shaffner

This intervention calls for “ordinary diplomacy” as a practice of persons and peoples, not only states. It affirms the right of all Peoples to self-determination as Ancients, acting as lights among the nations. Diplomacy here means thinking-with others in reciprocity, cultivating new spaces of reason and conviviality, and composing worlds together across differences. The text sets out principles for genuine moral leadership, collective invention, and planetary responsibility, grounded in covenant and dignity.

What Anti-Zionism Really Is

By Adam Louis-Klein Read the full text → This intervention identifies anti-Zionism as more than political opinion: a symbolic system that recodes Jewish continuity as oppression and erases Jewish covenant and peoplehood. It traces the genealogy of this worldview from Nazi and Islamist alliances through Soviet “Zionology” to its present dominance

The Sky–Earth System: A Manifesto for Learning to See and Think as a Generic Ancient

By Justin Shaffner and Adam Louis-Klein Read the full text → This manifesto introduces Sky–Earth Systems Science (SESS) as a cosmological metaframe that replaces the Modern Nature/Culture divide and restores the Human to the Center of the Universe. It argues that the crises of our times—climate catastrophe, inequality,

Oscillations, A Project for Thinking with Everyone All Together, at Once

By Adam Louis-Klein and Justin Shaffner Read the full text → Oscillations is a platform for non-standard experiments in anthropology, the social sciences, and cosmology. It diagnoses the aporias of the Moderns—such as climate catastrophe and inequality—while proposing concrete alternatives. Through Sky–Earth Systems Science, reading groups, and collaborative

On Antisemitism in the World-academy

By Adam Louis-Klein and Justin Shaffner Read the full text → Oscillations affirms the self-determination of persons and peoples everywhere, Jews and Palestinians included. This intervention rejects both the dehumanization of Palestinians and the rise of anti-semitism in the West and its World-academy. It critiques the academic-left for failing to think-with

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What Anti-Zionism Really Is

The Sky–Earth System: A Manifesto for Learning to See and Think as a Generic Ancient

Oscillations, A Project for Thinking with Everyone All Together, at Once

On Antisemitism in the World-academy