Requiem for the Abyss
From the mindings of S.C Hickman: Society—an inferno of saviors! —Emile Cioran No one reads the decadents much anymore, maybe it is because we have moved the world into a […]
Tag Archives: nihilism
The Opportunity of Nihilism
“Nihilism stands like an extreme that cannot be gotten beyond, and yet it is the only true path of going beyond; it is the principle of a new beginning.” – […]
Speculative Futures: Shaviro, Galloway & Thacker
“It’s a speculative accelerated realist bootleg throwdown! This episode features STEVEN SHAVIRO and ALEXANDER GALLOWAY discussing their recently published books THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS: ON SPECULATIVE REALISM and LARUELLE: AGAINST […]
Lost Worlds
A (non)credo for post-nihilist praxis from WOODBINE (excerpts): Every vision of the future is one of catastrophe, of climate apocalypse or zombie hordes, of the digitalization of all life or […]
Staring Into the Abyss
//www.onthemedia.org/widgets/ondemand_player/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onthemedia.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F401540%2F;containerClass=onthemedia Radiolab HOST Brooke Gladstone follows up on her conversation with Jad Abumrad and Eugene Thacker to explore our longstanding fascination with nihilism: why it’s popular today, and whether that’s always been the case.. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/staring-abyss/
Pop Nihilism and The Dust Of This Planet
From RADIO LAB: A conversation with Eugene Thacker on the truth, beauty and post-goodness of pessimism (nihilism?) Eugene Thacker is an author and associate professor at The New School in […]
Transformation without Apocalypse (?) Rob Nixon
Rob’s talk starts around 6:55 if like me you can do without the pipedreamer intro See also: Slow Violence and The Environmentalism of the Poor Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live […]
Naomi Klein is half right…
Here in this interview she rightly characterizes our escalating human-global-heating-mass-death as “an existential crisis for the human species, a clear and present danger to civilization, a death sentence for the […]
The Last Night (pdf) – Federico Campagna
“Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains […]
Naturalism’s Nihilistic Tendencies, Olivier Surel
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
Generation Todestrieb
My entire generation is traumatised by something that hasn’t happened yet. Shaking and sleeplessness, autoimmolatory alcoholism, fits of violent rage and sobbing breakdowns, weeks of self-imposed seclusion, an epidemic of […]
‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]
John Caputo on speculative-realism(s), Latour, Zizek, and more.
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhs1J9t2Q8 Apocalyptic Politics: Framing the Present Apocalyptic Nihilism – John D. Caputo, author of Demythologizing Heidegger via http://terenceblake.wordpress.com/
Ray Brassier – Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism
Ray Brassier (b.1965) is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at […]
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
The Decline and Fall of Work
Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in […]
Being in the World
“Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, […]
Wolfgang Schirmacher – Art(ificial) Perception: Nietzsche and Culture after Nihilism
Perceiving as the activity of this culture after nihilism is artificial and perceives in works only what we — the artificial beings by nature — value. Nietzsche asks himself the […]
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