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Fuck For Forest: Eco-Porn and the Inhumanities34 comments

Tim Matts wrote 3 weeks ago: Isabella Rosselini’s recent series of shorts on insect sex for the Sundance Film Festival may … more →

Tags: Ecocriticism, castration, Dark Ecology, Deleuze, desire, eco justice, Eco-Pornography, Gaian, green wash

specious happiness

osopher wrote 1 month ago: [NOTE to Happiness students who missed the email memo: we're not meeting today (I'm "in studio"). Yo … more →

Tags: happiness, Philosophy, Aristotle, epicurus, Plato, seneca, Steven Cahn, Success!, Work

sourpuss

osopher wrote 2 months ago: “Life is so short, questionable and evanescent that it is not worth the trouble of any major e … more →

Tags: happiness, Philosophy, Meaning, Pessimism, Buddhism, Green Porno, Isabella Rossellini, Kierkegaard, Love

The first chapter3 comments

morethangray wrote 2 months ago: I arrived home from work yesterday to find a box from Amazon on the porch.  Inside was a layer of ne … more →

Tags: artsy, My Voice, Photography, Alain de Botton, Amazon, book, bubble wrap, Cargo ship, cargo shipping

Seneca

osopher wrote 2 months ago: No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of … more →

Tags: Philosophy, int, seneca, Stoics

Last Night at the Lobster — Stewart O'Nan1 comment

Jake Seliger wrote 3 months ago: Stewart O’Nan’s Last Night at the Lobster reminds one that small can be engrossing and t … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews, Art, Novels, Literature, Work, Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan, lobster

The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton1 comment

Dennis Lewis wrote 3 months ago: Sunset in an Unknown LandI remember many years ago telling my main teacher in the Gurdjieff Work, Lo … more →

Tags: awakening, Book Reviews, Gurdjieff, Alexander von Humbolt, Art, associations, being, Blaise Pascal, Charles Baudelaire

Assorted Links

mmwm wrote 4 months ago: Alain de Botton on TED on success and failure: snobs, envy, the dangers of meritocracy (think … more →

Tags: Mimetic Theory, The Mind, pop culture icons, books and reading, social goods and ills, public affairs, law and politics, language, Philosophy and Theology, recent reading

"Death is hard to keep in mind when there is work to be done."

brittbrouse wrote 4 months ago: The above headline is a quote from: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Author: Alain de Botton Notes: … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, want to read

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work — Alain de Botton 1 comment

Jake Seliger wrote 5 months ago: Perhaps sensing a gap in our current understanding of the world, Alain de Botton has decided to prod … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews, Tools, Alain de Botton, Art, Literature, nonfiction, office life, the pleasures and sorrows of work

Life: Occupation and metaphysics edition courtesy of Alain de Botton

Jake Seliger wrote 6 months ago: “[The accountant] has a business card which she hands over in meetings and which tells other p … more →

Tags: Life, Alain de Botton, nonfiction, the pleasures and sorrows of work, Work

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Jt wrote 8 months ago: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work Alain de Botton :: UK :: Hamish Hamilton (Pinguin Group) :: April … more →

Tags: book, Alain de Botton, the pleasures and sorrows of work

Making the Black Death AND the office fun!1 comment

Al wrote 8 months ago: A quick entry this morning, as I’m rushing around today. So, rather than lots of typing, here … more →

Tags: Internet, Wow, that's cool!, Penguin, black death, workingspace, Science museum

Rousseau & de Botton on Affluenza

Karlos the unhappy jackyl wrote 1 year ago: I have been re-reading Alain de Botton’s ‘STATUS ANXIETY’, which is a great book. … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Affluenza, Rousseau, status anxiety

quote for the day

kattalina wrote 1 year ago: “It is books, poems, and paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelin … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Art, reading.writing.rithmetic, Books and Reviews, Architecture, happiness

Where's the art?5 comments

artandmylife wrote 1 year ago: You may have noticed that visual art has been thin on the ground here lately. I haven’t been a … more →

Tags: Art, Books, Reading, Maloy

Barney's Version — Mordecai Richler 2 comments

Jake Seliger wrote 1 year ago: Barney’s Version isn’t always clear or pretty, whether he’s portraying himself, hi … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews, Art, Novels, Martin Amis, Money, Literature, Milan Kundera, Stories

Notes from Status Anxiety: Conclusion

mmwm wrote 1 year ago: Final note on Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety (2004). This is the twelfth post on this topic; … more →

Tags: pop culture icons, books and reading, Quotes and Excerpts, social goods and ills, Philosophy and Theology, anxiety, status, Hierarchy, status anxiety

Solutions: Bohemia (Notes from Status Anxiety)

mmwm wrote 1 year ago: Notes from Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety (2004). This is the eleventh post on this topic; t … more →

Tags: Mimetic Theory, consumption & advertising, pop culture icons, books and reading, social goods and ills, Philosophy and Theology, recent reading, History, status


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