The game 2048 is a viral sensation where players use psuedo-math skills to swipe and combine powers of two until reaching the number 2048. The game, created by 19-year-old Gabriele Cirulli has been played over 100 million times and is open source.
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.
You Can Now Watch ‘The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology’ on Netflix
“The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” is a follow-up to the 2006 film “The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.” Similar to it’s predecessor, the film centers around cultural analysis of popular films such as “They Live” and “Titanic.”
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.
bell hooks Dancing to Beyonce’s ‘Drunk in Love’ is the Most Adorable Thing You’ll See All Day
Fresh off calling Beyonce a “terrorist,” bell hooks was recently spotted getting her groove on to Beyonce’s “Drunk in Love” by fellow activist Janet Mock.
Submit Your Papers! Towards a Queer Badiouian Feminism
You’ve got until August!
Student Council Candidate Runs as ‘Soviet Bear,’ Hilarity Ensues
Student council races, like real democracy, are often a sham popularity contest that teaches our not-yet disillusioned youth that we are impotent in the face of of Suzy Smith’s march to fascism.
Free Read! Badiou and Roudinesco on Jacques Lacan
In this excerpt from “Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue,” Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco discuss their first encounter with Jacques Lacan and his influenec on their work. Roudinesco had mostly ignored Lacan through her childhood, despite him being a family friend. Badiou, on the other hand, details his development from a Sartrean to an anti-Humanist student of Althusser before coming upon the work of Lacan.
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.
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Marxist Craigslist Personal Seeks Degenerate Trotskyite [NSFW]
I’ve never been one to seek romance on Craigslist, but if I did, it’s probably a good idea to invent weirdly specific scenarios about inter-Marxist philosophical conflicts. After reading this San Francisco personal seeking a “degenerate Trotskyite,” anarchist, or revisionist Communist Party member, I’m a bit inspired. Perhaps, “Deleuzian seeks raging Lacanian to make an Oedipal triangle? “