nihilism

Faith and Pride

January 14, 2011 · 3 comments

As far as I know, in most religions, vanity and pride are sins (or at least vices). I’m no theologian, but I can only guess that it has to do with putting yourself ahead of (or on par with) the divine. Conversely, in most religions, faith is considered a virtue. And it’s almost an extension [...]

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Slavoj Žižek on “The Death of God” – AAR Annual Meeting 2009

November 21, 2009 · 2 comments

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of watching a talk by Slavoj Žižek. He’s kind of like the Werner Herzog of continental philosophy (a Laconian to be exact) and also happens to be a professor at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and at the European Graduate School. Zizek gave his talk at [...]

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Paid Authority

September 13, 2009 · 0 comments

Print publishing is seen as a lot more authoritative than blogs because of the investment put into it. With a blog, you just write and publish. With a piece of print, someone was hired to assign the story/beat to someone who was hired to write it, and when the writer files it, it’s then vetted [...]

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