Meaning at the End of Meaning: Nihilism, Great Nonsense, and Praxis in the Shadow of Extinction

Philosophy and Rhetoric 53 (3):312-318 (2020)
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ABSTRACT I suggest in this essay that the responses to the coronavirus pandemic by the North Atlantic elite ought to be accounted in part to the circulation of nihilism as a structure of feeling under late capitalism. I then pose the question, how ought we think of meaning and meaning making under the shadow of ongoing extinction?

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