Zizek's essays on violence are relevant here. Discussing the Paris riots (2005 - or thereabouts), and recent terrorist attacks, he argues that what th...
Couple of points. First, Socrates was not killed. He was ordered, and agreed, to kill himself. Secondly it was not accidental, nor a failure on his pa...
I've read very little anarchist literature, largely, as mentioned, because I consider it fanciful. This is not to say that I don't sympathise with the...
Chomsky argues that anarchism is not disorganised, but is instead organisation without hierarchy. Fanciful as this may sound, it does offer a potentia...
Amusing, but no. I chose the name Shatter as a deliberately pretentious allusion to my desire to rip the guts out of the vain, ignorant, indolent soci...
The fundamental disagreement here seems to be between those who believe that simply working for oneself, or one's family, is better than working for s...
"Moral police" is a fascinating phrase. Maybe I've just read too much Orwell, but doesn't it seem rather ominous, as though such a group would be (or ...
As a philosophical sceptic, I'm essentially bound to accept the possibility that any argument may be valid. I'm struggling with this one, though. When...
This is a purely metaphorical duality, surely? As such, it seems to be a dangerous one. Easy as it is to conflate our subjective perspective with obje...
Seems to me that we're assuming a universal standard for pleasure here. I used to play (rock) music, but have since discovered that I am much happier ...
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