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Jul 12, 2015

A Litmus Test for Humanistic Technology Critics

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Jun 28, 2015

Mother Teresa's Ferrari

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Jun 12, 2015

Giving Offense: On Comedy & Political Correctness

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Apr 21, 2015

What Critics Misunderstand About Overparenting

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Mar 12, 2015

Altruism, or: The Ultimate Asshole Move

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Feb 11, 2015

True Sharing

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Feb 1, 2015

The Symbols of the Corporate Saints: On Ethical Consumerism

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Jan 27, 2015

No Dream of the Gift of Idle Hours

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Sep 15, 2014

The Man Who Loved His Laptop: A Review of Spike Jonze' Her

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Sep 14, 2014

Empathy is the Ultimate Neutrality

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Aug 5, 2014

The Cult of Sharing

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Jul 5, 2014

How to Play Philosophical Soccer

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May 9, 2014

Academia's Liberal Managerialism

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May 6, 2014

The Conquest of Cyberspace: Thoughts on Astra Taylor's The People's Platform

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Apr 11, 2014

Can Technologies That Empower Also Enslave?

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Mar 30, 2014

What Science Wants

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Mar 2, 2014

The Lego Surround: A Review of The Lego Movie

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Feb 13, 2014

Left Activism Goes Corporate: A Detour Through the Raw Food Underground

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Jan 26, 2014

Ten Parenting Lessons I Learned from Franz Kafka

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Jan 16, 2014

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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Jan 6, 2014

The Agile Labor Union

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Jan 1, 2014

More on Civility: Goffman & Semiotics

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Dec 20, 2013

Civility: A Distance That Brings Us Together

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Oct 26, 2013

Zizek & the Academic Industrial Complex

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Oct 25, 2013

Winning the Battle & Losing the War with Silicon Valley

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Oct 9, 2013

Interpreting Time Travel in Looper

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Sep 28, 2013

Thinking of Breaking Bad & Infinite Tragedy

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Jul 22, 2013

What Comes After the Man-Child?

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Jun 30, 2013

Startups: Innovation Through Inferiority!

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Jun 2, 2013

Racism, Stalinism & Politeness

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May 15, 2013

Critique of User Interface Illusions

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Apr 3, 2013

Compassionate Violence in Buddhism

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Apr 2, 2013

She's Watching the Faces Watching Her

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Mar 18, 2013

To Critique Everything, Click Here

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Mar 5, 2013

Descartes, Substrate Independence & Other Matters

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Feb 28, 2013

The Psychological End of History

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Feb 3, 2013

In Defense of Not Giving a Fuck: Or, The Perils of Ethical Purity

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Jan 23, 2013

Aaron Swartz's Non-Martyrdom

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Dec 27, 2012

Christmas is the Season of Joy & Cultural Criticism

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Dec 18, 2012

Left Self-Sabotage

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Dec 6, 2012

Technological Determinism & the Myth of Self-Reinvention

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Nov 25, 2012

A Review of Wreck-It Ralph

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Oct 21, 2012

Intrusion of the Real

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Oct 18, 2012

The Future Original

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Oct 14, 2012

Authenticity, Remix Culture & Rousseau

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Sep 26, 2012

Empathy, an Empty Signifier

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Sep 15, 2012

Anything You Get is More Than You Deserve

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Aug 26, 2012

A Field Guide to Textareas of the Internet

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Jul 30, 2012

Tolkien & the Machine

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Jul 15, 2012

A Review of Pixar's Brave

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Jun 29, 2012

Insults & Humiliation

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Jun 18, 2012

Organic, Locally-Grown Technology

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Jun 3, 2012

Crowdsourcing for Capitalism

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May 22, 2012

On Social Media & Loneliness

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May 17, 2012

On Data Transgression & Technofetishism

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May 16, 2012

Data Transgression

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Apr 8, 2012

Ideology & You: Partners in Freedom

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Feb 11, 2012

Customized Lovers for Busy Working Professionals

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Feb 9, 2012

The Constitutive Antagonism of Cyberspace

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Feb 6, 2012

A Review of Sherry Turkle's Alone Together

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Feb 4, 2012

In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call

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Feb 3, 2012

There is Only Cyberspace

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Jan 28, 2012

A Malfunction in the Cyborgologist Utopia

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Jan 19, 2012

On the Progressive Use of Copyright

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Jan 18, 2012

Facing The Google Vanguard

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Jan 16, 2012

Bertolt Brecht, Super Troll

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Jan 14, 2012

Anti-Capitalism & the Politics of Envy

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Jan 8, 2012

An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business

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Jan 7, 2012

Notes on Democracy & Other Neoliberal Fantasies

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Jan 2, 2012

The Peer Production Illusion: Part III: A Society For & Against The Market

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Dec 20, 2011

The Peer Production Illusion: Part II: The Neoliberal Ideology of P2P

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Dec 19, 2011

The Peer Production Illusion: Part I: The Myth of Open Source Software

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Dec 15, 2011

Photoshopping the Occupation

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Dec 12, 2011

The Network as Interpassive Object

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Nov 28, 2011

The Anarchist at the End of the Universe

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Nov 17, 2011

Consumer Activism in the Social Factory

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Nov 16, 2011

Instrumentalizing Social Life

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Nov 12, 2011

Qu'est-ce qu'une vraie femme? - Part 2

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Nov 12, 2011

Qu'est-ce qu'une vraie femme? - Part 1

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Oct 28, 2011

Social Media & Social Corrosion

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Oct 9, 2011

I Am Not Deceived

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Oct 7, 2011

iPhone, Commodified Resistance

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Sep 30, 2011

The Excess of Exaggeration

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Sep 25, 2011

Media Hypersexuality: Imaginary or Symbolic?

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Sep 19, 2011

Radical Monogamy

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Sep 15, 2011

Do You Want a Name For This World?

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Sep 14, 2011

The Girl Next Door is No Neighbor

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Sep 13, 2011

Erotic Capital & the Power of Beauty

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Sep 6, 2011

Home on the Range

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Aug 15, 2011

On Buddhism, Happiness & Pessimism

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Aug 10, 2011

London Riots: The Limits of Left & Right

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Aug 9, 2011

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Rioting in the 60s

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Jul 29, 2011

You Can't Check Out of the Peer-to-Peer Motel

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Jul 20, 2011

McLuhan's Ideology

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Jul 19, 2011

The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Plays Settlers of Catan Nearly Twice a Day

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Jul 19, 2011

The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Has Cheese Nearly Twice a Day

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Jul 18, 2011

Reading Network Culture

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Jul 14, 2011

A World of Disorderly Notions

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Jul 11, 2011

The Reflection Without The Vampire

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Jul 11, 2011

Capitalist Futures

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Jul 11, 2011

Antinomies of Liberalism

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Jul 9, 2011

Pixar's Class Problem

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Jul 9, 2011

Inauthentic Man

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Jun 30, 2011

Upper Class Chavs

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Jun 23, 2011

Since the Dawn of Time: A Series

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Jun 17, 2011

Hipster Runoff

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Jun 15, 2011

Anti-Semitism is Bourgeois Self-Hatred

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Jun 15, 2011

All True Thought Contains a moment of Paranoia

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Jun 12, 2011

My Workers Love Work!

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Jun 10, 2011

What is Appearance at its Most Radical?

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Jun 9, 2011

Open Wallets, Open Minds

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Jun 9, 2011

Elections as Market Competition & Consumer Choice

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Jun 8, 2011

Feedback Systems are Counterrevolutionary

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Jun 6, 2011

Madhouses for the Sane

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Jun 5, 2011

Their Sentences No Longer Have Meaning

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Jun 4, 2011

Since the dawn of time: A Series

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Jun 3, 2011

Socialism & Fear of Socialism

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May 31, 2011

Infidelity & The Ethics of Personal Happiness

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May 30, 2011

Adam Curtis on Self-organizing systems

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May 29, 2011

Freedom as the censorship of unfreedom

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May 26, 2011

Unfreedom in wants

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May 25, 2011

Crowdsourcing Mobile Application Development

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May 25, 2011

Crowding out of intrinsic motivations

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May 24, 2011

Disobedience affirms the order it ostensibly contests

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May 4, 2011

A Functioning Cog In Some Great Machinery

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May 3, 2011

Zizek in the Cloud

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May 3, 2011

How would ethical philosophers redesign Soccer?

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Apr 24, 2011

The Surprising Truth of How We're Being Motivated

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Apr 22, 2011

Neo-bohemia is Always Contaminated By Nostalgia

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Apr 12, 2011

The Dark Side of Humanist Management

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Apr 12, 2011

The Actuality of Ayn Rand

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Apr 11, 2011

Disengagement is a Luxury

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Apr 5, 2011

Google's Microformats & The Limit of Participation

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Mar 31, 2011

Happiness Comes at a Price

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Mar 22, 2011

The Greatest Lie of Capitalism

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Mar 15, 2011

The Greatest Spying Machine

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Mar 3, 2011

This is the Totalitarian Procedure

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Feb 13, 2011

A Steam Engine Has No Character

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Feb 12, 2011

My Wound Existed Before Me

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Jan 31, 2011

Marx Against State Ownership

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Jan 12, 2011

Politeness v. Tact

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Jan 10, 2011

Uncommitted Sins

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Dec 27, 2010

The Real as Virtual

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Dec 21, 2010

It is only through fantasy that the subject is constituted as desiring

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Dec 13, 2010

Ryan vs. Kant

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Oct 4, 2010

The Messianic Christ & The Limits of Empathy

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Oct 1, 2010

Have you ever been in love?

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Jul 26, 2010

Misreading Inception with Descartes

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Jul 21, 2010

Become like me & I will respect your difference

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Jun 12, 2010

In our unconscious, in the real of our desire, we are all murderers

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May 4, 2010

Why does truth arise through mistakes?

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May 3, 2010

Oppose Marijuana Legalization in Washington

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Mar 13, 2010

Beautiful Soul Syndrome

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Mar 2, 2010

Beauty & Madness

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Feb 27, 2010

We can't even escape from reality into fantasy any more

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Feb 25, 2010

Caught in Play

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Feb 12, 2010

Disillusionment of Modern Hedonism

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Jan 26, 2010

Become Yourself, Only Better

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Jan 15, 2010

A Hegelian angle on Heidegger

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Jan 10, 2010

The Americanization of Mental Illness

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Nov 25, 2009

Biomorality of Happiness

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Aug 27, 2009

The Demise of the Big Other

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Aug 27, 2009

Dark City & Ideology

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Jul 16, 2009

How sex-positive is anti-sex

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Jul 11, 2009

Hedonism, Capitalism & Consumerism

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May 15, 2009

Moral Topology

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Feb 9, 2009

A New Kind of Ignorance

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Jan 24, 2009

The Impossible Object

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Jan 24, 2009

The Psyche on the Outside

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