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Final Fantasy

On February 23, 2008, close to 200 volunteers flushed, at coordinated intervals, every toilet and urinal at newly built Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., to ensure the pipes could handle the load....

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Death By A Thousand Eternities

“Without the threat of death there’s no reason to live at all.” –Brian Warner We are told to exercise, to improve the quality of our lives, to above all be happy. We buy a Fitbit. It counts our steps,...

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A Blessing In Demise

This post previously published here. We are told to exercise, to improve the quality of our lives, to above all be happy. We buy a Fitbit. It counts our steps, checks our vitals, monitors our sleep...

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Final Fantasy 2.0

This post previously published here. On February 23, 2008, about 200 volunteers flushed, level by level, every toilet and urinal at newly built Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., to see if the pipes...

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Three Of A Mind

thesis – antithesis – synthesis Id – Ego – Superego talk – text – data conservative – liberal – anarchist client – therapist – transference duty – honor – country lather – rinse – repeat shadow –...

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Necessary Evil

Jean Baudrillard believed in the power of reversibility to challenge our relationships with social, political, economic and technological systems. Computer viruses, for example, turn our devices...

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(Diss) Connecting

In his 2017 book In the Swarm: Digital Prospects, Byung-Chul Han examines the challenges of working in a global economy. Concerned about employee burnout, Han writes, Even though we are now free from...

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The Abyss Of Meaning

Paul Tillich finds hope in The Courage to Be when he writes: “The vitality that can stand in the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning” (177). Jean...

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Contemplation Is An Endangered Thesis

Freedom today means the freedom to buy whatever my little heart desires. In a single click sometimes. The freedom to rate products anywhere from one star to five. To become a smart shopper with...

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I’m Not A Robot

The cable company faxed me a chain letter about smooth operators spoofing my home phone number. They fear my laptop suffered a silent keystroke in the middle of a critical update. Have I tried turning...

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