Philosophy for Posers, Lovers, and Readers.
Phaidos is an online publication covering culture from a philosophical perspective. Founded in 2026, we take philosophy and theory as a starting point from which to playfully engage with cultural, literary, and social topics. We do not shy away from the pretentious or the “pseudointellectual”, but rather lean into the poser as an archetype from which to straddle high and low culture. We publish long-form essays, interviews, shorter book reviews, and speculative and theory-inspired fiction.
Editors
Ester Freider (b. 2002) is a Russian-American writer, digital curator, and 'creative academic' residing at the intersection between philosophy and literary studies. She writes autotheory, poetry, and experimental prose; curates and produces live events; creative directs publications; operates as a creative consultant for brands and galleries; makes performance art on the internet. In addition to being the inaugural editorial director of Phaidos, she is a co-founder and lead curator of the multimedia project Everyone is a Girl. She lives and works in London.
Eilean Lough-Phare is a writer and editor with a focus on introspective and experimental writing. Drawing on feminist philosophy and gothic aesthetics, her work includes essays, poetry, and cultural criticism, alongside articles on fashion and contemporary aesthetics. She is an online curator and poetry editor and also writes Relics of a Girl, a Substack that serves as a resting place for thoughts.
Lily Schwalb (b. 2003) is an American writer and researcher working at the intersection of analytic philosophy and mathematics. She conducts academic research on artificial forms of agency and frontier decision theories, and she is also interested in Hegelian aesthetics and analytic feminist theory in the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir. As an artist and poet, she has been awarded for her work in translation of poetry from French to English; her own poetry traverses themes of techno-futurism, imagism, and mysticism. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
