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Vice interviews Simon Critchley

· Andre Hoffmann · in Culture Theory
Reading one of my favourite magazines, Vice, I stumbled across an interesting interview with contemporary British philosopher Simon Critchley. The interviewer is not very good, probably he had no idea of what he should ask, but nevertheless, Critchley pointed out some interesting thoughts.
We are not even consumerist; we are a society of distraction, idle talk, and ambiguity. Everybody knows everything has happened, everything is automatically trivial, and, again, nothing means anything. This is the world of blogging, the fake world of Facebook, the world that compensates for an absent set of social experiences. There are virtues to social-networking sites, I’m sure, but you feel an awful vacuum at the heart of them.
The whole interview. Simon Critchley.

2 Comments

  1. drnn1076
    you are right Admin Andre, the questions look like tweets, which reinforces the spirit of what Mr. Critchley means...
  2. Andre
    Hahaha! That's a nice analogy.

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