This isn’t just a stew of reactionary race science and competitors for world’s most divorced man, though, but one could be forgiven for thinking that. No, this is the veneer of rationality chipping away to reveal the idiocy underneath. What we have here is the fruit of a deprived reason finally coming to harvest – the same reason that claims that the STEM fields are inherently superior to the humanities in the academy, but shuffles people into business school more than STEM, anyway.
Read MoreThis makes cosmic horror an interesting genre – what we are looking for in it is something that we tend not to think of as anywhere near desirable: we are looking for someone to assure us that an individual person’s life doesn’t matter. This is not simply a way of understanding cosmic horror, but a way of using cosmic horror as a lens through which to read other events.
Read MoreWhat does the construction of our clothing tell us about our culture’s attitude to human dignity, and what can we do with that?
Read MoreSo in my thinking, desire is momentum, and the things that make up our social world are mass: we are pulled along towards them. However, just as a sufficiently powerful gravity well can warp space and time around it, so to can certain things in the social world warp the context.
Read MoreI’m coming to the conclusion that the 2010s did not actually exist. The time passed, certainly. People were born and died. But, from a cultural perspective, I think it’s a dead end that doesn’t lead anywhere in particular.
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