Tag: Existentialism
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The Outside Man
So. France issues this thing: the Jacques Deray Prize. Annual. For crime thrillers. Ritualistic. Like maintaining a firewall against cultural amnesia. Deray himself? Lyon-born. Not your Melville-grade auteur. Not Becker-level firmware. But industrial-grade. Reliable. A workhorse chewing through continental action flicks with Delon or Belmondo plugged into the lead roles. La piscine? Sure, a sexy…
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The Big Exit
When Jean-Paul Sartre penned No Exit back in 1944, he didn’t have a clue that Silicon Valley would turn his existential nightmare into a business model. There, in a well-ventilated room with glass walls, soft bean bags, and artisanal cold brew on tap, the brightest minds of our generation are sweating bullets, not because of…
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The Death of Recognition
People are so entangled in their own subjectivity that the Other ceases to exist as an autonomous being; instead, they are reduced to a projection, a prop in the theater of one’s self-conception. The Other is not seen as a consciousness with its own projects and freedoms but as a necessary validation of the individual’s…