Meeting Myths
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them” (Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 490) This week, I revisited Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling for Arts One. This text is one that has, in many ways, haunted me … Continue reading Continue reading
girls girls boys
I remember in psychology class back in high school, we learnt about the education of children and the way advertisements and commercials affect children and their perception of who they are and what is acceptable in society. Why is this … Continue reading → Continue reading →
identity crises
Hong Kong was a colony of Great Britain until July 1st, 1997, when it was handed back to China. My point? I’m 19 and have lived pretty much all my life in a post colonial country. Why is this post … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Silence and Speech
This week, I’d like to talk about a chant–a little ear-worm, if you will–that has been embedded in my mind for decades. It’s an unpleasant puzzle why, when I’ve forgotten other arguably more useful and less damaging things, somehow I … Continue reading →
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Naming the unknown –– Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler
What we have here is The Ambiguous Case of Antigone, where she is “unintelligible and unthinkable”. So… why do people even bother trying to understand her? Here’s why I think so many people have attempted to define and classify Antigone … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Repetition and Sisyphus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →
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Repetition and Sisyphus
“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than … Continue reading →Continue reading →
Podcast: Beowulf and On the Genealogy of Morals
Discussion with Jill Fellows and Kevin McNeilly
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Audio of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme