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Outsiders The Outside Theory of the Outside Ufology

Out There

A review of “Supernatural America: the Paranormal in American Art” by Leif Bergerud.

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Outsiders The Left

Hip, Woke, Square: Postscript on Mailer

“Woke” once denoted an oppositional mentality. How has it come to mean something close to “square”?

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Mimetic Theory Outsiders

Crisis and Differentiation

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

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Mimetic Theory Outsiders Poststructuralism Theory

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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Outsiders Technology The Left The Right Theory

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.

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Outsiders Postmodernism Poststructuralism Theory Theory on the Outside Wild Theory

Theorycels in Trumpworld

The links between the Trump administration and critical theory are less surprising than they might seem.

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Mimetic Theory Outsiders Wild Theory

Sacrificing the Founder

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

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Mimetic Theory Outsiders The Outside Wild Theory

Preliminary Theory of the In-Group Contrarian

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