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The Sacrificial Logic of Vaccination

@fitnessfeelingz on the deep connection between vaccination and human sacrifice.

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Mimetic Desire and Serial Monogamy: the Case of Roger Waters

Love triangles derive from the triangular structure of desire. (Guest post by Mark Anspach.)

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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?

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Crisis and Differentiation

For René Girard, social crisis is the result of a loss of differences.

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Mimetic Acceleration and Capitalist Hyperintelligence

On Accelerationism and Mimetic Theory

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The Violence of Institutions, or Girard avec Foucault

René Girard and Michel Foucault shared an abiding interest in the violence embedded in institutions.

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Control Societies with Sacrificial Characteristics

Hi-tech networked control and archaic sacrificial systems may seem like opposites, but in fact, they complement each other.

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Sacrificing the Founder

The recent toppling of statues reveals the triumph of what Nietzsche called “critical history” over “monumental history.”

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Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian

The In-Group Contrarian is a simultaneously marginal and a central figure for understanding social media dynamics.