“The question I face, the question we all face, the ethical question at the heart of human life and the ethical question Buddhism helps us see at the heart of […]

When I am manic I am a leftist; when I feel normal I am a pessimist.  The key question of post-nihilist praxis is why should anybody care about anything. We’re split […]

http://podcast.wpr.org/tbk/tbk151025a.mp3 “H.P. Lovecraft’s influence on pop culture has exploded in recent years. But why? Erik Davis is a cultural critic and the author of the essay, “Calling Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft’s Magickal Realism.” […]

“As a response to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s critique of my essay “Fetishes are gods in the process of construction,” this paper enters into critical engagement with anthropological proponents of […]

Your friend has died, with whom You roamed the streets, At all hours, talking philosophy. So, today you went alone, Stopping often to change places With your imaginary companion, And […]

This is Not Cool Above, scientists explain why climate change intensifies storms and precipitation. CNN: Patricia — the strongest hurricane ever recorded — barreled closer and closer Friday morning to […]

“New research, new methods and new data offer some promising pathways for novel theories and concepts to understand how urban existence gets under the skin. For example, we could combine […]

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits […]

Originally posted on AGENT SWARM:
Deleuze habitually condemns “discussion” as narcissistic and sterile, an empty social ritual to be avoided at all costs: It is already hard enough to understand…

Originally posted on Shannon E. Williams:
Turning again and again towards the empty place fails to bring it any closer any faster ?

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/world/middleeast/netanyahu-saying-palestinian-mufti-inspired-holocaust-draws-broad-criticism.html jewish philosophy place On many things Jerusalem –points of no return, the current spiraling of violence, delusions, borders, religion, the collapse of traditional authority, youth violence, settlements, dividing the […]

I’d written a fairly long post on Stoicism and psychopathy to accompany this post but the computers here at work ate it. They log you off if you’re inactive for […]

Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
CultureNature is a new journal that is free on-line, which features articles from landmark STS scholars (Casper Bruun Jensen, Annamarie Mol, Christopher Gad, Marilyn Strathern,…

Nobody reads it but the insomniacs. How strange to find a child, Slapped by its mother only this morning, And the mad homeless woman Who squatted to urinate in the […]