“Death Drive,” “hauntology,” “in horror vacui,” and “uber-chutzpa” are just a few of the phrases that grace the pages of “Why are Animals Funny? Everday Analysis: Volume 1,” published in the UK by independent publisher, Zero Books. “Why are Animals Funny?” is written by a band of, well, what I call renegades. They, however, call themselves the Everyday Analysis Collective (EDA Collective), a group comprised mostly of journalists and academics out of England.
Category Archives: Theory and Theorists
Watch Jean-Luc Godard Deliver a Monologue From Arendt’s ‘On the Nature of Totalitarianism’
In this video, new wave French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard narrates an excerpt from Hannah Arendt’ essay “On the Nature of Totalitarianism: An Essay in Understanding.”
Inside The Global Center for Advanced Studies, a Chat with Creston Davis
Creston Davis left a cushy tenure-track job to start a graduate school from scratch. A year later, they’ve managed to grab some huge names in critical theory.
Watch 8-Bit Philosophy: Kant on Determinism
Do humans operate like computers? Are you predestined to never beat Contra? Maybe. Or, for Kant, not at all. This video, from the new series 8-Bit Philosophy, takes on the question from a Kantian perspective.
9 Insane Stories from The Lives of Famous Existentialists
Existentialism is a field of philosophy that grapples with human existence and flourished in post-war Europe in the 1940s and 1950s.
Of course, these thinkers of human existence were also dealing with their own. Namely, that their lives were a bizarre shit-storm of mental breakdowns, drug-induced genius and tremendous backlash from the societies they lived in.
Learn All About Nietzsche and Science in 3 Minutes – With Video Games!
“Does Science = Truth?”is from a new series called “8-Bit Philosophy” that uses video game sprites to explain philosophy.
Read Camus’ Letter to His Elementary School Teacher After Winning the Nobel Prize
After winning the Nobel Prize, philosopher Albert Camus thought to thank his mother first, and an elementary school teacher second. Camus wrote this letter (below) to his teacher Louis Germain who, according to Letters of Note, “fostered the potential he saw and steered young Camus on a path that would eventually see him write some hugely respected, award-winning novels and essays.”
“Nietzsche’s Burst of Laughter,” Interview with Gilles Deleuze
In this interview from 1967 in the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, Deleuze speaks about the legacy of Friedrich Neitzsche.
That Time Zizek Wrote for Playboy
“What is a Brand?”
Jorge Luis Borge’s Self Portrait, Drawn After Becoming Blind
Drawn in the basement of NYC’s Strand Bookstore.