Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why. In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism ...

Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

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Every few months, the internet latches onto an image that somehow captures a collective mood. In early 2026, that image turned out to be a penguin, quietly, almost stubbornly, walking away from ...

Two penguins walk together toward their habitat, moving in quiet synchrony, bound by instinct and direction. Then, without warning, one of them stops. It turns away and begins walking in the opposite ...

Roger Caillois, possibly one of the most well-known theorists of human games and play, famously wrote that “play is ruined by the nihilist” in his book Man, Play, Games (1961). What he was getting at, ...