“Annihilation, or the Anti-Nature” – Rodrigo MENEZES

Revista Saeculum, Universitatea "Lucian Blaga", Sibiu, anul XVII (XIX), no. 1/45 (2018), p. 51-70. [PDF] Abstract: This paper undertakes a philosophical analysis of the original motion picture “Annihilation” (2018) in light of Clément Rosset’s tragic philosophy, namely his 1973 book, L’anti-nature. It is all at once an homage to the philosopher who passed away just…

“Words of nectar and cyanide” – Joseph BOTTUM

FIRST THINGS, May 2009 You can trace, through the history of philosophy, a line of aphorism”that odd, somewhat disreputable method of doing philosophy as a kind of bastard poetry. Maybe even as a kind of magic: truth as something to be summoned by careful incantation and the weird precision of a witch’s spell. It starts…