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• Action Camus, the Superman of Nihilism

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  Was reading Boldtype’s “10 Awesome Books to Give Your Nonreading Friends” where I came across the work of cartoonist R. Sikoryak. Here’a an article about him from The New Yorker : For twenty years, the cartoonist R. Sikoryak has been creating parody strips of literary masterpieces, casting familiar ...
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• Theory 3: Existentialist Illness of Cyberneticism, or Cybermental Illness

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 576
  The phenomenon of cyber-mental illness is a growing problem. Indeed, it would be of great benefit to expand the sociological field of cyberneticism. If we follow the positivist constructionism rule, it can be tested that, as a form of mental illness, may be applied to computer users and their psychoanalytic, ...
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• Theory I: Positivist Constructionism

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 576
  I admit that the insufficient and short memoir is a shortfall of words with little or no emotional attachments. Nevertheless, the dictated body does offer a hint of constructionist events that defaults on the positivist agenda of absolutism, objectivism, and determinism. In other words, events are done out of relative ...
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• “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own...

  
  WAXIN' AND MILKIN' — Authority: 142
  “However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light” — Stanley Kubrick, 1968 Playboy Magazine interview via qja / drinkyourjuice
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• Existential Migration: Is Travel An Existential Need?

  
  Matador Abroad — Authority: 490
  Feature Photo: Sarah Menkedick Photo: goingslo Existential migration is changing the way we think about home and belonging. Leaving home can be a traumatic and exciting experience, especially if we are leaving to live in a foreign country. Research into the experiences of voluntary migrants has unexpectedly ...
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• Benefits of science should reach masses: Patil to scientists (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kolkata, Dec 7 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil Monday told Indian scientists that the fruits of science should reach the masses as the importance of nations in the 21st century would be determined not only on economic strength but also in their ability to conceptualise inventions for people’s benefit.Pointing out ...
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• Evangelista – Prince of Truth

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 526
  Constellation Considering Evangelista is side project of musician Carla Bozulich—a rather unstable project at that—it is hard to imagine that a work of quality would be produced by a band that seems to be a metaphorical revolving door. However, despite the constant entering and exiting of band members, ...
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• A Medium for Light

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 111
  Cynthia Williams was a reluctant medium, which was not hard to imagine when you realize that the catalyst for what was eventually to become her life’s work was the unusual attention she received from, of all things, a dolphin. I met Cynthia Williams at a small conference that was held at Angel Valley, a beautiful ...
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• Winter: Hibernation & Reinvigoration

  
  Hammermarks — Authority: 126
  Ice, Elements #7 ©2009 WTEK As the days get shorter and I see less and less of the sun, I find I want to slow down and do nothing.  I want to take a nap and go to bed early.  I want to sleep in.  I want to lie around all day reading books and drinking tea (or coffee) watching the birds outside my back door.  I ...
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• Wisdom of the Ages

  
  David Rheins Blog — Authority: 111
  Forties fading fast five days till I turn fifty milestone or millstone?
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• Ancient Roman Existentialism?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 436
  Jean-Paul Sartre, I think, would have like this. It’s from Carlin Barton’s  Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones (pg. 32, UC Press 2001): As the art historian Bettina Bergmann points out, the Romans had a taste for moments of high tension, frozen instants of “explosive emotions,” “excruciating suspended ...
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• November 30th

  
  David Rheins Blog — Authority: 111
  One more day and then December, last month begins where has the time gone?  
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• “The Road”: Cormac McCarthy’s Version of Helen Reddy’s “You and Me Against the World”?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 436
  Slate recently reviewed the film version of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road , and reported that watching it is—how shall I put this politiely?—emotionally problematic:  The Boy and Man on the road, nameless in the long-dead world. Their cart and tarp and tins of food sole bulwark against the growing cold. ...
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• Leftist Thought Led To Fascism – And Is Doing So Again

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 498
  Liberals think that the title of Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is an oxymoron.  They’re wrong.  Goldberg himself writes: “For more than sixty years, liberals have insisted that the bacillus of fascism lies semi-dormant in the bloodstream of the political right.  And yet with the notable and ...
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• "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in..."

  
  WAXIN' AND MILKIN' — Authority: 142
  “Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the...
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• Middle Way Mormonism and Authenticity

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 415
  Don’t believe enough to be an orthodox, true-blue Mormon… …but you still have some compelling reason to stay…you don’t want to abandon your Mormonism… Is there such a thing as a Middle Way ? Many people think so. Madam Curie wrote a great blog post assessing if Middle Way Mormonism is actually ...
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• Problems of Brad Pitt: Pretty Lower Ninth Public Housing Pissing People Off? [Volunteerism]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 865
  Further proving the road to hell as indeed paved with good intentions—or in this case, "green" concrete— Brad Pitt s taking flack for building public housing in New Orleans Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth ward. The houses are dreamy . The reaction isnt. Brad Pitt, whos presumably done more for the city of New ...
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• First Video from Sheldan Nidle Montgomery, AL Workshop

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 111
  Agarthans, Humanity’s Mentors I have had Sheldan Nidle as a guest on Talk For Food on several occasions. The first time was in April 2008, as one of the stops on my first seven-day “road trip” to Northern California. At the time hadn’t realized that I had actually read one of his early books, You ...
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• Recommended Reading Material

  
  Total Dick-Head — Authority: 91
  Apologies for the paucity of posts recently. The grading flurry has begun as I try to return essays before the end of the semester, but Ill bet youre sick of my excuses. I have been sneaking some time to reread Martian Time-Slip and am enjoying it immensely. Dont know if Ill have time to delve into the novel as ...
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• Simone de Beauvoir and Phenomenology

  
  The Mustard Seed — Authority: 122
  Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson Here is a short piece from a post I did at The Excerpt Mill on   Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in where I quote Barbara S. Andrew: One of the most significant aspects of The Second Sex is its encyclopedic indexing of women’s lived experience: biology, psychology, the ...
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