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Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in a high-level meeting on Addressing the Existential Threats Posed by Sea-Level Rise in New York City, New York, September 25, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Shenkin St. - one of the most popular streets in Tel Aviv, either for shopping or just for a coffee. I am in total love with Shenkin Street.
The stalls in the biochem department get a little existential. "I love god. You are delusional, but normal".
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
Last night, I had a minor panic-attack-existential-crisis, and spent an hour coming up with The Plan. The plan is a way to make my life meaningful, and consists of a three-pronged attack: Volunteer at the Humane Society, go back to school, and start up an AR (animal rights) website, getting the word out and being informative, graphic, in-your-face truthful, and awesome.
As of now, I'm awaiting word from the Humane Society about whether I can come to the next dog walking class, getting info in the mail about an online college I'm going to enroll in, (Medical assistant- one of the fastest growing occupations this decade!) and I plan to delete my old blogger account and start a new one. Yay progress! Yay school! Yay puppies! Yay opening minds!
Yay!
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Week Forty Eight:
At least that is my understanding of how the world works. If I don't see it, hear it, smell or taste it then it didn't happen and can't exist. That is why those trees in the woods are still standing tall and proud but at the same time not existing at all because I wasn't there to hear them fall and if I wasn't there to hear them fall I couldn't see them at all and therefore they don't exist so couldn't fall in the first place which also doesn't exist since I've never been to the first place.
Oooh no there's a quandary. Do places that we haven't been to actually exist? This deeply philosophical thought that may not actually be philosophical since I've forgotten what the word is for the thing I'm thinking of but philosophical is the closest to it so I'm going with that one.
But anyway the answer to that little thought can be concluded in this most profound of statements.
Are you ready for it?
This is edge of the seat stuff here. You'll be telling your grandchildren and in some cases cats about what you're about to experience here.
Anyway here we go....
Yes. Yes it does exist.
Ooooh are you getting shivers too? I can feel them coming all up my trouser leg, around the *ahem* unmentionables and...oh it was just draught from the window.
Existential! That was the word I was thinking of. Ah dictionary you are more useful than just providing a giggle from the rude words you contain.
Hee hee dictionary.
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
A 36-year-old man, Patrik Eriksson, is in the midst of an existential crisis when his two coworkers Erik Hemmendorff and Ruben Östlund (The Guitar Mongoloid and Involuntary) decides to document his life using their cell phones. The film project leads to intimate situations and long conversations on relationships, sex and friendship. Patrik sees the material and decides to make a movie of his own depressions and struggle to find love and happiness.
This is an extremely honest, raw and charming documentary, shot entirely by cell phone cameras. The story is easily recognizable: a man that is struggling with his love life and friends who are trying to help. It is also funny to watch three guys in their 30s completely involved in creating the perfect text-message to a girl.
Patrik Eriksson will be a guest at the festival.
Patrik Eriksson, born 1970 in Örebro, Sweden. Studied film directing at the School of Film Directing in Göteborg.
Thomas Hardy at his 'existential' best...
Epitaph On A Pessimist
I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same.
Martin Lovell, friend and fellow photographer shot during our recent visit to the Photographers Gallery in London.
In the period following World War I, a curious attraction appeared at fairgrounds: the photographic shooting gallery. If the punter’s bullet hit the centre of the target, this triggered a camera. Instead of winning a balloon or toy, the participant would win a snapshot of him or herself in the act of shooting.
Yes Martin did hit the target.
thephotographersgallery.org.uk/shoot-existential-photography
An exhibition featuring the work of:
Belladonna Johnson
Heather Tatarek
Heather Tubwon
Kayla McMullen
Kayleigh Fichten
Sissorelle Ferox
"There is no specific force, there is instead existential energy, which is an incarnation of the spirit concept. Basically the essence of life, the thing that motivates development, makes things grow and causes things to change...The ability of an individual to pursue their purpose with an amplified understanding and sensitivity. Existential Energy."
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Of course, such distinctions might be traced out much further but I limit myself to the distinctions which are needed in present study.
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
CLONELY
Tuesday 25 July and Wednesday 26 July at 9pm, £5.
King’s Arms Studio, 11 Bloom Street, Salford M3 6AN.
CLONELY is an adventure in existential sci-fi crisis. A blend of bullsh*t arthouse theatre with the best of sci-fi cinema, but on stage and with DIY props. Expect lo-fi aesthetics, an awkward five minute docking scene, and long monologues about how dark and bleak space life is. Are you scared of dying aclone?
Presented by Charlie Hammond and Jasmine Chatfield.
Sci-fi, performance, art, theatre.
Book tickets via www.greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk
Interview with Charlie by Andrew Riley and Aleksandra Todorova: youtu.be/xwumviEnCEw
Photograph Shay Rowan
This is the time of year when we always go through a bit of an existential crisis with the garden. The thrill of the plants taking root and coming into their own is past, but nothing's really bearing fruit yet, so we spend all our time fretting over how this garden surely isn't as good as last year's. As soon as the high-summer crops start to roll in we'll get over it, though, so we'd resigned ourselves to a few more weeks of being mopey and feeling like we're failures. But then! This morning! A peek under the surface of the insanely overgrown bean bed revealed... a harvestable crop! Our Dragon Tongue bean ship has come in! And this is especially re-energizing because it's something we've never grown before.
Puscifer
at The Greek Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
June 12, 2022
All photos © Kaley Nelson Photography - www.KaleyNelson.com
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