The Words That Fail to Capture the Suffering of Chronic Pain
A guest of pain cannot be named, and so it returns again and again, a lesson in the failure of language itself.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Tag: Philosophy
TV Reviews7.7/10
Ergo Proxy Review: A Slow-Burning Mystery That Earns Its Payoff
A domed city, a virus that grants androids thought, and a mystery older than mankind itself. Ergo Proxy's slow, philosophical tale of awakening.
TV Reviews7.8/10
Terror in Resonance Review: Ambition Over Spectacle
A quiet, brooding anime about terrorism, memory, and two boys named Nine and Twelve, reviewed in eleven episodes.
Rovelli’s New Book Argues Physics Can’t Give Us an Absolute View of Reality
Physicist Carlo Rovelli argues physics reveals no ultimate perspective on reality, only relations between things.
Album Reviews8.3/10
Liturgical’s Black Metal Debut Is Profoundly Ambitious — and Mostly Delivers
A grim chronicle of Liturgy's Origin of the Alimonies, wherein the old gods fall and a new god rises amid darkness.
Bertrand Russell Says Karl Marx’s Philosophy Was Built on Muddled Thinking and Hatred
A discourse of solemn import: how one philosopher of doubt condemned another's fervor, and named the hatred at the root of a vast disaster.