Remembering JFK’s Assasination As A Death of Democracy
Site editor’s note: This post from DJ Pangburn originally appeared on death + taxes: The Kennedy assassination and the conspiracies surrounding it are imbued with such meaning for Americans because the...
View ArticleSelf-Hatred vs. Self-Love: An Interview with Eric Walberg
Gilad Atzmon writes on Media With Conscience: Two weeks ago I published a review of Eric Walberg’s invaluable new book Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games. I was left with a few...
View ArticleHas Neuroscience Disproven Evil?
Via Modern Mythology: In “Is Myth Dead?” in The Immanence of Myth, I talked about some of the misconceptions that exist between what falls under the purview of science, and what belongs instead to...
View ArticleLiving Today With Replicant Memories
Via OMNI Reboot, Roy Christopher ponders whether total media saturation has programmed our memories: In his 1999 book Culture Jam, Kalle Lasn describes a scene in which two people are embarking on a...
View ArticleRethinking Democracy
A pretty compelling read introducing the radical idea that maybe Democracy needs to be reconsidered. Old hat to postmodernism, of course, but maybe it’s time for some mainstream exposure for these...
View ArticleAfter the End of Truth
A generation raised on Foucault and Derrida has learned to distrust claims to objective truth. Yet the mantra that ‘there is no truth’ is a paradox. Do we need a new conception of fantasy and reality...
View ArticleWhy the World Does Not Exist
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square [1915] Does the world itself exist? Do unicorns exist? German philosopher Markus Gabriel talks to four by three about his latest book Why the World Does Not Exist,...
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