December 2010
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Badass Putin megapost
I bet that plane exploded a second later and he didn’t look at the explosion and just kept walking
You might not think this last picture is badass, but while Putin cuddled that Puppy he said “no Mr. Bond, I expect you to die”
Before encountering the absurd, the everyday man lives with aims, a concern for the future or for justification (with regard to whom or what is not the question). He weighs his chances, he counts on “someday,” his retirement or the labor of his sons. He still thinks that something in his life can be directed. In truth, he acts as if he were free, even if all the facts make a point of...
from Zizek's 'Against Human Rights"
Liberal attitudes towards the other are characterized both by respect for otherness, openness to it, and an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the other is welcomed insofar as its presence is not intrusive, insofar as it is not really the other. Tolerance thus coincides with its opposite. My duty to be tolerant towards the other effectively means that I should not get too close to him or...
This is the Seikilos Epitaph, which is apparently...
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Merry Christmas, Friedrich Nietzsche! →
yet another shameless plug for the existentialist christmast calendar. today’s topic is Nietzsche :-{)
Ajita Kesakambala (early Indian materialism)
The buddhist text Digha Nikaya (Samannaphala Sutta, the fruits of the contemplative life) has dialogs with six post Upanished radical thinkers who wandered North India around the time of the Buddha’s birth (circa 500 BCE) provoking debate and attracting followers. Of them the most interesting and clearly the most radical is Ajita Kesakambala. Ajita was a contemporary of Siddhartha ...
“I agree with Alain Badiou, who has a nice theory that with all this internet...”
– Slavoj Žižek
November 2010
17 posts
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What is Existentialism? →
This christmas, the greatest gift of all is the realization that existence is fundamentally absurd. Read the first entry of ‘the existentialist christmas calendar’ :}
“So if we give them money for oil, that allows them to buy weapons from us with a...”
– Jon Stewart on the “War on Terror”