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Category: Apocalypse
Post #3145: Sometimes it’s a struggle to show up
I overslept my alarm by an hour this morning – which is so unusual for me that I could hardly believe it when I woke up late for work. Fortunately, I work at home so it was quick business to get the coffee made… Continue Reading “Post #3145: Sometimes it’s a struggle to show up”
Oh Sunday and global anxiety.
Agh. I missed making a post yesterday because I was way too involved in Sunday activities – snow shoeing on Mt. Seymour, playing music, cleaning the house, making dinner for friends, finishing the Žižek book, drinking a little too much wine, ranting and hot-tubbing… Continue Reading “Oh Sunday and global anxiety.”
Equivalence.
There certainly is a great deal of darkness in the dense Congolese jungle — but its causes lie elsewhere, in the bright executive offices of our banks and high-tech companies. In order to truly awaken from the capitalist “dogmatic dream” (as Kant would have… Continue Reading “Equivalence.”
Bad to worse.
“…it is questionable whether Christ departed from life with the words we find in the Holy Scriptures, those of Mathew and Mark, My God, my God, why hast Thous forsaken me, or those of Luke, Father, into Thine hand I commit my spirit, or… Continue Reading “Bad to worse.”
Riders of the Capitalist Apocalypse
According to Slavoj Žižek, the four riders are: Ecological Crises Consequences of the biogenetic revolution Imbalances within the system itself (problems with intellectual property; forthcoming struggles over raw materials, food and water) Explosive growth of social divisions and exclusions Also in the introduction to… Continue Reading “Riders of the Capitalist Apocalypse”
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