Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label popular culture. Show all posts
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator

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I'm not sure when intellectual gimmickry first gained a foothold in the best seller lists and became a pop culture phenomenon. I think t...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Shit happens

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I can't remember whether it was two or three decades ago that I saw my first " Shit Happens " T-shirt. There are many variatio...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Tarrying with Theology: Slavoj Žižek & The Monstrosity of Christ

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The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? Slavoj Žižek & John Milbank, edited by Creston Davis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009....
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Oprah, the self-help & prosperity spirituality racket

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How the Self-Help Industry Tied Spiritual Salvation to Spending Lots of Money by Joshunda Sanders and Diana Barnes-Brown (Bitch Magazine) ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Esoterism, Occultism, the Illuminati, & Fascism

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Written 16 June 2010, now slightly edited with slight additions : Today as I approached my local supermarket to buy groceries, I saw a parke...
Sunday, January 25, 2009

The Big Religion Problems…Solved!

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“The Big Religion Problems . . . Solved!” w/Gregory S. Paul Equal Time For Freethought, Show 291, Jan. 18, 2009 The point of departure is pa...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Red state of mind?

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Written 5 January 2007: “Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm...