Wednesday, October 15, 2014

When facts are not just facts: How Sam Harris sneaks ideology into his supposedly objective account of the world

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On the October 3 airing of Real Time with Bill Maher , host Maher and New Atheist author Sam Harris clashed with actor Ben Affleck i...
Friday, September 19, 2014

The Giver (2014) and the Return of the Repressed

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Source: Wikipedia.org The 2014 film The Giver , the latest of a series of dystopian movies based on young adult novels (e.g. Divergent ,...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Paranoid and Dilemmatic Ideology in Punk Rock Music

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The term “punk rock” is applied to diverse artists that often have a hard time fitting underneath the same umbrella. As such, punk (like oth...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014

The Voice and the Object Cause of Desire

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  On typical talent contest shows like American Idol , Dancing with the Stars , and The X Factor , competitors walk out in front of the ...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Richard Dawkins Down Syndrome Twitter Controversy: Is Morality All About Pleasure?

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Richard Dawkins has ignited yet another online firestorm with a provocative Tweet about abortion and Down Syndrome (DS, or trisomy 21). It...
Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Paranoid Style in American Police Departments

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There is already plenty of news and commentary on the killing of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old African American man who was shot ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

The Double (2013) and the Uncanny

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Source: Traileraddict.com Freud describes the uncanny as a special kind of fear; it “is that class of terrifying which leads back to so...