Lost in the Mirror: Soft Porn + the Trashed Body on Social Media
In our world of soft porn, we decide to turn ourselves into a means of another person’s end. In a real sense, this is the act of destroying or trashing our own dignity.
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Menachem Feuer
Dr. Menachem Feuer is a member of the Jewish Studies Faculty at the University of Waterloo. He was previously a member of the Center for Jewish Studies at York University. Feuer has written numerous articles, essays, and book reviews on philosophy, postmodern literature, and post-Holocaust philosophy and literature. He has published in Shofar, Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, International Studies in Philosophy and the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, and in numerous book collections. He was a Senior Editor at the popular literature, art, and culture website Berfrois (https://www.berfrois.com/tag/menachem-feuer/). He is the author of the highly acclaimed blog, Schlemiel Theory (www.schlemielintheory.com).
Paranoid Nationalism: The Jews Did It
Social media makes it possible for people to perpetuate their isolation from Jews and find ways to confirm their paranoia on a daily basis.
Read Article »Trashed: Garbage, Barbarism + Spectacle in American Culture
In our digital world, trashing compels us to gaze at the digital carnage flowing through our social media feeds. It compels us to enjoy the waste of the person (or thing) who (that) has been trashed.
Read Article »What is the Good Life?
The question of the good life, the tension between Athens (Reason) and Jerusalem (Revelation), the quarrel of the ancients, can be seen, today, as a form of Counter Enlightenment.
Read Article »Truth in the World of Sophistry
There is truth. It does exist, but it is not about who has power. It’s not about who you are or what you are, it’s about what you think.
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