“Annihilation, or the anti-nature” (Rodrigo Inácio R. Sá 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…