A review of “Supernatural America: the Paranormal in American Art” by Leif Bergerud.
@fitnessfeelingz on the deep connection between vaccination and human sacrifice.
Love triangles derive from the triangular structure of desire. (Guest post by Mark Anspach.)
“Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”?
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Girard’s Revelation
For René Girard, the Gospels have already revealed the most fundamental truths. What, then, is his own contribution to knowledge?
For René Girard, social crisis is the result of a loss of differences.
On Accelerationism and Mimetic Theory
René Girard and Michel Foucault shared an abiding interest in the violence embedded in institutions.
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Right Marcuseanism
Herbert Marcuse’s “Repressive Tolerance” is often cited as the progenitor of the censorious left, but its real ideological heirs are now on the right.
The links between the Trump administration and critical theory are less surprising than they might seem.