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13 Nov 2023

Fragmented Remarks on Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life - Part 2: The Return of the 70s

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Joy Division (L-R: Peter Hook / Ian Curtis / Bernard Sumner / Stephen Morris)      "Were they fallen angels or ordinary blokes? " ...
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9 Jul 2023

A Brief Note on the Psychology of Philosophy

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I think, therefore I'm ill   I.    After a recent 6/20 presentation [1] , someone in the audience surprised me by saying that she didn&#...
1 Jun 2023

More Philosophy on the Catwalk (With Reference to the Case of Andrea Sachs and her Cerulean Blue Sweater)

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  Anne Hathaway as Andrea Sachs and Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly The Devil Wears Prada (dir. David Frankel, 2006)     When writing abo...
13 Feb 2023

Aujourd'hui, Maman est morte

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Last photo of my mother on her 96th birthday  (10 July 2022)     My mother died today. Unlike Meursault, however, I'm pretty certain of ...
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30 Sept 2022

Feed the World

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New sign erected at a local equestrian centre; the exclamation mark  detracting from the politness of the request.  (Image: SA/2022)     I. ...
6 Feb 2022

The Rich Can Buy Soap: Why I Find Shepard Fairey's Hope Poster Problematic

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Shepard Fairey in front of his portrait of Barack Obama before its installation  at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2009...
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23 Aug 2020

The Study of Myth is an Occupation for Imbeciles

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Pop art prints by Amazon I. It's always worth remembering to whom Nietzsche dedicated the first edition of Human, All Too Hu...
2 Jun 2020

Schopenhauer and the Sea Turtles

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An Indonesian sea turtle and a 19th century German philosopher As everyone knows, Schopenhauer thought the world a manifestat...
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30 May 2020

In the Presence of Michel Houellebecq in the Presence of Schopenhauer

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Front cover of the Polity Press edition (2020) designed by Adam Renvoize I. The fact that Michel Houellebecq loves Schopenhauer...
30 Oct 2019

Schadenfreude

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Schadenfreude is a form of malicious mirth that takes cruel delight in another's misfortune, failure, or humiliation. Nietzsch...
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31 Dec 2018

All of My Life is All I'll Give You: Un/Holy Reflections on the Case of St. Nietzsche (A Guest Post by Símón Solomon)

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Nietzsche Icon from Ryan Haecker's  blog  Transhuman Traditionalism   I. 'How is negation of the will possible? Ho...
11 Dec 2018

Noise Annoys: Notes on Hyperacusis and Associated Conditions

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Pretty girls, pretty boys,  have you ever heard your mummy scream ...?  I. The Case of Schopenhauer and the Seamstress As ...
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5 Feb 2018

In Memory of Joris-Karl Huysmans (and His Bejewelled Tortoise)

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Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...