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There's something so vile and fragile in this world. It is the idea of becoming a human. Physically, human is just an animal. However, what is truly huma...| Factory Garden 🏭🌳
At the beginning of the 2023 blockbuster hit, Barbie, the narrator makes two claims: “All of these women are Barbie and Barbie is all of these women” and “Because Barbie can be anything, women can be anything.” Despite the appearances of Barbie being a superficial movie about a children’s toy, this sets the stage for […] The post Becoming Real: Barbie and the Crisis of Existential Identity first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
There's something so vile and fragile in this world. It is the idea of becoming a human. Physically, human is just an animal. However, what is truly huma...| Factory Garden 🏭🌳
How do we find our way forward in the chaos? The post Introduction And Index To The Ethics Of Ambiguity By Simone de Beauvoir appeared first on emptywheel.| emptywheel
The Pale Criminal? In Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, the chapter titled “Of the Pale Criminal” presents one of the most enigmatic and psychologically rich parables in all of his Continue Reading| The Stand Up Philosophers
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.| Frank Elavsky
I had never read Buzzati before and having heard such wonderful things about his famous novel The Tartar Steppe it seemed like the time was right to give it a try and what an absolutely brilliant r…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
The other morning, I noticed that a large cocoon, which had been stuck to our bathroom wall for some time, was empty; the brand-new butterfly had emerged. Such are the cycles of nature: flora and fauna change, decay, and perish. The beauty and magic of nature lie in these transformations and in decay. The shifting […]| The Immaterialist
Bruno Perreau Translated by Susannah Dale Fredric Jameson, literary critic, Marxist philosopher and Knut Schmidt Nielsen Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University, has published the transcripts of the graduate seminars he led in the spring of 2021 exploring … Continue reading →| In the Moment
The meaning of life needn't be found. It's already within you. The meaning of life is simply to be alive – everything else is extra.| Stephan Joppich
Life lately for me has been taking place in the slow lane. It is not easy for me to slow down. I always have a thousand projects and ideas for writing, research, new designs, collaborations, etc. etc. And all of that noise tends to be mixed with piles of books I would like to read, music I want […]| The Immaterialist
Deism, nihilism, existentialism and postmodernism are four worldviews considered in this article. It is helpful in understanding how postmodernism impacts our thinking today.| Probe Ministries
Here is one of the quintessential 20th-century novels. Often assigned to college students as an introduction to Existentialism, it is the story (quoting from the back of the book now) “an ord…| Phil's Scribblings
The word authentic comes from the Medieval Latin authenticus and Greek authentikos, meaning “original, genuine, principal”, from authentes or “acting on one’s own authority”. It derives from the term autos or “self, of oneself (independently)” and hentes meaning “being”, and the modern use of authentic implies that to be authentic, the contents in question should […]| The Confucian Weekly Bulletin
X (erstwhile Twitter) might be a ghastly place nowadays, but it continues to remain a great source of book recommendations (for me at least), and thanks to Andrew Male (who writes wonderfully about…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
As I struggled to make sense of my life as a young multipotentialite, the journals of Søren Kierkegaard seemed to echo my thoughts. It turns out that this nineteenth century philosopher's thoughts on identity and anxiety are more relevant than ever.| Puttylike
