critiquing ideology
In a recent article published in Politico Magazine, ‘How Billionaires Learned to Love Populism’, Amy Chua describes the phenomenon of billionaire populism that we are witnessing in the United States and throughout various European countries. Chua notes that this billionaire populism is not merely an American sensation, but also illustrated in the politics of Silvio […]
Read More…Do you ever wonder what the ruins of modern society will look like? Will the jagged spires of steel raised above an expanded New York City bay be our Parthenon? Will the observers be the next generation of humanity, extraterrestrial life, or will the ruins just merely be a state, unobserved, objective. Like Chernobyl, or […]
Read More…In what has been called the ‘6th Mass Extinction‘, we are currently living through a period in which overpopulation, exhaustive consumption patterns, and global warming are leading to ‘biological annihilation’. There have been five other mass extinctions: End-Ordovician, 443 million years ago Late Devonian, 360 million years ago Permian-Triassic, 250 million years go Triassic-Jurassic, 200 […]
Read More…“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face” – Albert Camus
Read More…“Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t […]
Read More…From the bottomless entrails of darkness arises the shining spark of a new culture” – Kazimir Malevich The Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), developed a new form of painting called Suprematism during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution and the First World War. Suprematism reflects the revolutionary spirit through abandoning the traditional mode of […]
Read More…“It’s not only about the facts, it’s also about the perceptions, it’s also about people’s feelings, it’s also about people’s emotions, and I am very well aware that emotion is a subject that is underestimated and belittled in mainstream political theory, but in general, we, on the left liberal democrat progressive circles, I don’t think […]
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The Junction 