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Foucault’s Anti-Humanism: The Order of Things

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Love and hate, despair, pity, rage, disgust— what are these amidst the fornications of the planets? What is war, disease, cruelty, terror, when night presents the ecstasy of myriad blazing suns?

June 8, 2019 Philosophy & Literature

A Requiem for a Dream: The Place of Anxiety

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The true vision of reality is never benign. That’s why, for example, movie characters who use the phrase, “this is too good to be true,” are almost always correct. And if they are not suspicious of their fortune, then audiences can peg the character(s) are certainly naive and most likely doomed.

May 17, 2019 Film/TV Discussion

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Analysis/Review)

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The novel is humanistic in its acceptance of dark, negative, and evil aspects of the human imagination, but nevertheless warns that those dark energies exhaust themselves; therefore, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a map of a restricted area.

April 27, 2019 Literature, Philosophy & Literature

Men With Guns: Taxi Driver (1976) and Breathless (1960)

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By situating the film’s protagonist, Travis Bickle, in conversation with other Big Screen Outlaws, we find that the politics of resentment are co-constitutive with the violence of toxic masculinity.

April 6, 2019 Film/TV Discussion, Words

A Fall from Nietzschean Grace

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Albert Camus’ The Fall specifies a new kind of self-flagellation. While Christians throughout history have flogged themselves to purify the world through their pain, believing that their sins cause civilization-wide catastrophes, Camus’ protagonist creates a closed circuit of vice and virtue: he confesses to his vices so that he many continue to enact them.

March 20, 2019 Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy & Literature

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