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Tag Archives: Nihilism
THE UGLINESS (AND HIDDEN BEAUTY) OF REAL AWAKENING
By Gary Z McGee Source: Waking Times “In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow—and that is likely to hurt.” ~Wei Wu Wei The path toward true awakening is painful and bumpy. It’s not pretty. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Awakening, Cognitive Dissonance, Consciousness, culture, Existential Angst, Nihilism, Philosophy, psychology, society, spirituality
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Inventing the Future: The Collective Joy of Mark Fisher’s ‘k-punk’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants k-punk By Mark Fisher Foreword by Simon Reynolds, Edited by Darren Ambrose Repeater Books, 2018 A little over two years ago, theorist and cultural critic Mark Fisher took his own life at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Economics, Film, History, media, Media Literacy, Music Video, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged antinatalism, Cultural Theory, culture, Darren Ambrose, hauntology, K-Punk, media, music, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, Philosophy, Precariat, pulp modernism, Simon Reynolds
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Accelerating Capital: Completed Nihilism and The Indebted Man
By S.C. Hickman Source: Southern Nights In his book Data Trash (1993), Arthur Kroker writes that in the field of digital acceleration, more information means less meaning, because meaning slows info circulation. In the sphere of the digital economy, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, media, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Alberto Toscano, Capital, capitalism, Debt, Deleuze, Dystopia, Economics, Franco Berardi, Guattari, Neoliberalism, Nietzsche, Nihilism, Philosophy
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Juxtaposing Anarchy: From Chaos to Cause
By Colin Jenkins Source: The Hampton Institute Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly-structured, and authoritative. Because of this, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, culture, History, Philosophy, society
Tagged Anarchism, Anarchists, Anarcho-Punk, Anarchy, Libertarianism, Nihilism, Occupy Movement, society, The Hampton Institute, Underground Hip-Hop
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