Apeirogon – Page 6 – The Junction

Capitalist Opportunism

So this weekend I decided to visit the grave of Karl Marx. A quick google search told me Karl had passed away in 1883, and his grave was located in Highgate Cemetery in North London. A mere bus ride later I was confronted with this site: “There are no depths of irony, or bad taste, […]

by Aaron White

Light Reading

Some light reading to cure a Sunday hangover: HUGO: Inaugurators will be training liquidation officers, while liquidation officers will be training inaugurators. DIRECTOR: And will it then be inaugurated by a liquidation officer trained by an inaugurator, or by an inaugurator trained by a liquidation officer? HUGO: Another training will have to be organized. Inaugurationally […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan I love this for a number of reasons. For the perspective that it gives to our everyday experience, for the way in which it demonstrates the power of rhetoric and music on emotions, and I love it for the illogically incorrigible moment of pride it instills in me about planet earth.

by Aaron White

The Perfect Leaf

Excerpts from a Toastmasters speech I gave several years ago, on the benefits of green tea. Camellia sinensis. Sounds like a terrifying disease, or an obscure type of cheese. Actually, it is the species of shrub used to produce green tea. I don’t know how many of you think about green tea on […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Goldsmith’s Tale

The Goldsmith’s tale is a short and basic history of our modern system of banking. It demonstrates the progression of logic to where we are today, and the profit-driven incentive that has propelled that progression. It also exposes the absurdity of our current system, and the tenuous nature of an economic order based on nothing […]

by Aaron White

Fear of the Foreigner

For those of us who have studied the rise of fascism in the 1930’s, we should all be concerned about the rise of xenophobic rhetoric and the recent electoral success of nationalist parties throughout Europe. Stefan Zweig, one of the most famous writers during the interwar period, expresses the rise of nationalism in his memoir The […]

by Freddie Stuart

Zero-Sum Games

A zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant’s gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants. If the total gains of the participants are added up and the total losses are subtracted, they will sum to zero. This means that it is […]

by Aaron White

Colossal Advertisements

In Soviet countries, the emblems of the state and ideology were inscribed in public spaces. The metro in Prague had propaganda lining the walls while people waited for the trains to arrive. In contemporary London, colossal advertisements line the walls of the tube. Nearly every space in our daily lives has been utilized to manufacture […]

by Freddie Stuart

Ignorance is Bliss

I spotted this photo in a newspaper this week and had to post about it. It depicts a diver in the fjord of Kaldfjord near Tromsø in the Arctic Circle, blissfully unaware of the presence of two killer whales who have come up for air behind him. The phrase ‘ignorance is bliss’ was coined in Thomas […]

by Aaron White

Revolutionary Hip-Hop

“They got a new housing plan for the ghetto eventually, projects for a New American century, false-flag terrorism controlling you mentally, the gospel in the hands of people with no empathy, a mixture of dangerous social chemistry, between law enforcement and a military entity. Cameras on a corner of every corner you’re facing, testing out […]