#art #history: 'when the rich go to war, it's the poor who pay.'
jean-paul sartre, born #otd in 1905, will always be relevant - & this rumination of his is one of many reasons that i embraced existentialism over nihilism.
it instructed me that 'being' is an individual's responsibility, but that we all, as humans, have a collective responsibility to each other.
anyway, j-p was a righteous dude.

#jeanPaulSartre
#sartre
#philosophy
#illustration
#france
#existentialism

Oh no, ChatGPT's here to make you question your very existence! Katherine Dee bravely navigates the treacherous sea of internet-induced spiritual crises while reminding us she's an "Internet ethnographer" (whatever that means) with all the gravitas of a digital Missed Connections post.
https://default.blog/p/lets-talk-about-chatgpt-induced-spiritual #ChatGPT #Existentialism #InternetEthnographer #DigitalCulture #SpiritualCrisis #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! We've stumbled upon a riveting tale of a server's existential crisis : the inability to represent itself is apparently a high art form now. Kudos to #ModSecurity for elevating "Not Acceptable" to new philosophical heights — you're really breaking the glass ceiling of useful error messages!
https://morrick.me/archives/10048 #servercrisis #existentialism #errorhandling #highart #HackerNews #ngated

"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗."

─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘴

𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆” 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 -

Bellow's brief and incisive novel of a single day at the end of a series of "carpe diem" failures offers an ambiguous and elusive escape from tragedy; worth every moment of reflection on it.

What do #AI, #Heidegger, and #Evangelion have in common? Absolutely nothing, but here's a brave attempt to mash them into a philosophical smoothie. Spoiler alert: it's as coherent as a robot having an existential crisis over a 90s anime.
https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/ai-heidegger-and-evangelion #Philosophy #Existentialism #HackerNews #ngated

I didn't expect to wake up yesterday morning and watch a video about the meaning of life as examined and explained through video games. I especially didn't expect that this was something I really needed and which both comforted and moved me.

This video by Juniper Dev is a so very well put philosophy lesson - communicated in a captivating and beautiful way. Definitely a recommended watch.

https://youtu.be/f5R26shc-7I
#JuniperDev #philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #nihilism

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Douglas Adams

Scientists Discovered Something Kinda Alarming: The Universe Shouldn't Actually Exist –Popular Mechanics

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a61816635/science-suggests-universe-shouldnt-exist/

Dawn bus ride thoughts.
- Oooh, pretty. (Sliver of moon hangs low over the first light of the day.)
- Those colors are coming from a large ball of radiation that could wipe out all life if we didn’t have a protective atmosphere.
- And that’s a cold, unforgiving rock attached to us by gravitational pull.
- We are all simply floating in space and survive largely by chance.
- I’m about to get into a tin can and defy gravity at hundreds of miles per hour.
- I should probably eat something soon.

Hello Fediverse! Feels good to be back! With this account I hope to make my small contributions in #romance #horrorliterature research and the #discourse around #horror, #fear, the #uncanny and #affect in general, but also to share some thoughts on the current political and philosophical discourse concerning #affecttheory #psychoanalysis #existentialism and #cosmotechnics

Writing primarily in ENG and GER but also in RU, IT, PT, ESP and maybe even FR!

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#meme #existentialism

The Stranger, by Albert Camus (trans Matthew Ward).

You are an averagely simple young man, but differ in that you really don’t care about other people, their ideas, or what they think of you; then you mostly accidentally kill another man who threatened you, and you end up on trial not so much for that crime, but your unwillingness to regret it in conventional moral terms.

4 of 5 library cats .

@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #existentialism #justice

As the meme says, I want to be sparkly, in pinks and purples...but the world is on fire, and I am angry. I wanted to be happy -- I got traumatized.

But the #GOODNEWS is that if all goes smoothly, I shall hit "publish" on my newest book (my first ever non-fiction!) within the next 48 hours:

APPETITE FOR ANTITHESIS: (De)KNOWING GOD IN A LENTEN PRACTICE

#indiepub
#selfpub
#AtheismForLent
#PeterRollins
#Lent
#philosophy
#theism
#atheism
#DeathOfGodTheology
#existentialism
#RadicalTheology

The meaning of life for communists

Hi all! I’m looking for interesting accounts that talk sometimes about #LiteraryCriticism, or maybe other #literature and #CriticalTheory-based accounts. I’ve tried searching for authors I like, but haven’t had a huge amount of luck beyond finding posts. I’m especially looking for #SciFi criticism, but am curious about a lot of other genres too. Some other things I like are #DFW, #MarkFisher, #PKD, #BeckyChambers, #Solarpunk, #Cyberpunk, #Existentialism, #ArabLit, #Metamodernism. TY!

"... the voice of the subject speaking in solitude for those to whom it is drawn by hopeless longing."

~ Theodor Adorno. "Mahler - A Musical Physiognomy"

Yes, sometimes it can feel like that.

𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩

Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development

Very interesting food for thought. Well worth a read…

https://gradual-disempowerment.ai