Is distraction vital to capitalism?
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“You Cannot Escape Your Country,” James Baldwin, a 1984 Interview
Can people of color, or more specifically, people in urban African-American communities, salvage anything from America? Do we now live in two Americas, in diametric opposition, too far away to bridge the enormous economic and political divide, or maybe have we always?
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7 New Translated Excerpts on Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism
Frantz Fanon Argues No “Being Through Others” for People of Color in 1952
“Sealed into that crushing objecthood, I turned beseechingly to others. Their attention was a liberation, running over my body suddenly abraded into nonbeing, endowing me once more with an agility that I had thought lost, and by taking me out of the world, restoring me to it.”
Spurning Unwanted Advances, Now With More bell hooks
Is Creepy McCreeperson being a little too insistent on getting your digits? Before you handing out the number to your local Popeye’s when you’re pressed, just try this number instead: (669) 221-6251.
Review: Why are Animals Funny? The EDA Collective
“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.
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.
Neuromarketing: Capitalism’s Mindfuck. Maybe.
Marketing, which was once an art of intuition, guessing and half-assed test groups, is becoming notably creepier.
Meaninglessness, Purposelessness, Anxiety & The Existential Vacuum
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