As late-stage capitalism breaks down, it increasingly deforms language. We see it every day, in every news report, in every mainstream analysis, as elite state power doubles down on mass manipulation.| Anna Chen – Renew the spirit, free the mind
My sweetheart and I had sealed our commitment at high noon. My father had raised a cup to our good fortune, issued a stern proclamation against peddlers, bestowed happiness and property upon us and…| Biblioklept
Satoshi Kon’s Paranoia Agent is still the best send up to postmodern correlationism ever made. Sure, everyone hates postmodernism now. But that wasn’t always the case. From the 80s until just…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
Has the thought ever crossed your mind that life feels increasingly artificial, as if everything around us is more curated than real? In an age dominated by screens, media, and Continue Reading| The Stand Up Philosophers
In principio erat Verbum – Jn 1:1 The spirit of our age is one of irrationality. We are suspicious of people that make (universal) truth claims. We are| Homiletic & Pastoral Review
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
Clenched fists against postmodernism, poststructuralism and postcolonialism speaks more to the impossibility of remaking Africa than otherwise.| E-International Relations
In early May 2024, Greg Glassman hosted a group of friends for tacos and an informal presentation of what science is, and the problems with the science of today.| The Broken Science Initiative
It has been five years since our essay-cum-opening statement ‘Notes on Metamodernism’ was published in the Journal of aesthetics and culture, about six and a half years since it was written, and sevenish years since it was conceived late at night in a student dorm room in London, discussing, not entirely sober, the financial crisis,| Notes on Metamodernism -
I was already thinking about Columbia University, where courageous students are calling out the college administration's support for genocide in Gaza, when I heard Paul Auster had died of cancer at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn.| Literary Kicks
The following discussion of Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Blue Lard (in translation by Max Lawton) is intended for those who have read or are reading the book. It contains significant spoilers; to be ve…| Biblioklept
David Hogg is a modern kid, raised in an atmosphere of constant social media manipulation, both from the outside (media), and from all of his peers. He is a child of Facebook. He has been raised to manipulate his classmates through posts and streams, in a generation where attention is more valuable than anything else in life, and where attention is to be grabbed by any means possible. The massacre gave him the opportunity – and even honorable motivation – to step up and play the gam...| Tanner Hauser
