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		<title>Conspiracy theories are a mythologization of capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/22/capitalism-and-conspiracy-theories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an essay published on May 21 at The New Inquiry and bearing the teaser line &#8220;Just because we can hear the black helicopters doesn&#8217;t mean they don&#8217;t exist&#8221;: The modern conspiracy theory is a mythologization of capitalism. That humanity writhes in the grip of a power alien to itself is so palpable that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Koyaanisqatsi’: A warning not just for America but for China</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/21/koyaanisqatsi-a-warning-not-just-for-america-but-for-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first watched the film Koyaanisqatsi as an undergraduate student at Mizzou, in the company of other students, in the context of a student Philosophy Club meeting. And the film flat-out blew my mind and rocked my world. I have no idea if any of the others present at that viewing were as deeply affected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coins for the Ferryman: Horror as the Key to Our Dark Inner Depths</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/20/coins-for-the-ferryman-horror-as-the-key-to-our-dark-inner-depths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Gavin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The analysis of Horror is, like almost everything else related to the genre, paradoxical. Because the genre is so rife with archetypal imagery and taboo subjects, it seems that any attempt to rationalize or understand it in purely intellectual terms is ineffectual, or at the very least inadequate. Whereas most other forms of artistic expression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why dreams are the new Book of Revelation in our post-apocalyptic world</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/18/why-dreams-are-the-new-book-of-revelation-in-our-post-apocalyptic-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an essay by sculptor, guitarist, and Jungian therapist Paco Mitchell on the awesome significance of dreams as psychic, spiritual, religious, and mythic guides to our present and future age of apocalyptic breakdown and revelation: We are living in an age widely regarded as “apocalyptic,” though many of us steadfastly try to keep the lid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Powerful and serious fictions”: The mythic/psychic reality of gods and other fictional characters</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/18/powerful-and-serious-fictions-the-mythicpsychic-reality-of-gods-and-other-fictional-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 13:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From a recent blog post by psychologist and author Thomas Moore, in which he elucidates one of the key insights from his mentor in depth psychology, the late, great James Hillman: “An axiom of depth psychology asserts that what is not admitted into awareness irrupts in ungainly obsessive, literalistic ways, affecting consciousness with precisely the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading 41</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/17/recommended-reading-41/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This installment of Recommended Reading might almost be described as a special Apocalypse and Extinction edition, as evidenced by the first four items below. Today: A new book about the reality of mass extinction and the human race&#8217;s best strategies for survival. John Michael Greer on the entrenched historical tendency, especially among Americans, to posit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The meaning of horror and “that dark sorcerer” Cormac McCarthy (with nods to Ligotti)</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/16/the-meaning-of-horror-and-that-dark-sorcerer-cormac-mccarthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9430</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest entry in &#8220;By Heart,&#8221; an article series from The Atlantic &#8220;in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature,&#8221; novelist Benjamin Percy, author of the just-released werewolf novel Red Moon, talks about the deep and permanent emotional impact that he experienced from reading a certain passage in Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pentagon claims domestic authority “to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances”</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/15/pentagon-claims-domestic-authority-to-quell-large-scale-unexpected-civil-disturbances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is it just me, or is this profoundly disturbing? No, it&#8217;s not just me. From the Long Island Press, May 14: The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Shelley: Mother to the monster</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/14/mary-shelley-mother-to-the-monster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And speaking &#8212; as I did just yesterday &#8212; of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, here&#8217;s author and history professor Michael Saler discussing two new books about Ms. Shelley and her novel (The Annotated Frankenstein and The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece)for The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paranormal orbs and the dark side of Phil Collins</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/13/paranormal-orbs-and-the-dark-side-of-phil-collins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the defining societal and psychological traits of electric media culture, stretching back many decades, is its collective wholesale infatuation with the cult of celebrity, which is of course a severely debased form of traditional hero worship. For a surprisingly riveting look behind the curtain and smokescreen of the whole sorry phenomenon, see the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankenstein wept: Algorithms unleashed, Matrix rising</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/13/frankenstein-wept-algorithms-unleashed-matrix-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s British author and journalist Steven Poole, writing for Aeon magazine in an article published just today and titled &#8220;Slaves to the Algorithm&#8220;: Our age elevates the precision-tooled power of the algorithm over flawed human judgment. From web search to marketing and stock-trading, and even education and policing, the power of computers that crunch data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homer, Tolkien, and the ontology of visionary states in a materialist age</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/10/homer-tolkien-and-the-ontology-of-visionary-states-in-a-materialist-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his new book The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience, English professor, writer, and classical guitarist Robert Tindall, writing with psychology professor and transpersonal psychotherapist Susana Bustos, &#8220;Weav[es] together the narrative traditions of the ancient Greeks and Celts, the mythopoetic work of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the voices of plant medicine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recommended Reading 40</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/10/recommended-reading-40/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this installment: A report on the new type of futurism that&#8217;s being spearheaded by highly regarded scientists and scholars for the purpose of studying the reality and scope of existential threats to human survival. The triumph of fear as a central motivating reality in contemporary geopolitics. The global plague of feral pigs. Renowned author [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unnamable but Not Undrawable: The World of Lovecraftian Superheroes</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/09/unnamable-but-not-undrawable-the-world-of-lovecraftian-superheroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 22:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Young</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Search for the Heroic in Lovecraftian Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Search for the Heroic in Lovecraftian Fiction, Part Three In Part One of this series I set out to demonstrate that it&#8217;s possible to find aspects of optimism and heroism in H. P. Lovecraft&#8217;s stories. In Part Two I looked at how a number of other writers, and also filmmakers &#8212; including Robert E. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orson Welles on Chartres Cathedral, authorship, and the purpose of human existence</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/09/orson-welles-on-chartres-cathedral-authorship-and-the-purpose-of-human-existence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And this has been standing here for centuries. The premier work of man perhaps in the whole Western world, and it&#8217;s without a signature: Chartres. A celebration to God&#8217;s glory and to the dignity of man. All that&#8217;s left, most artists seem to feel these days, is man. Naked, poor, forked radish. There aren&#8217;t any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art, creativity, fate, and the end of the world: Revisiting Joseph Campbell</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/07/art-creativity-fate-and-the-end-of-the-world-revisiting-joseph-campbell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion & Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing & Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daemonic creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joseph campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mythology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When The Power of Myth, the six-part PBS television series featuring Bill Moyers interviewing Joseph Campbell, first broke upon the unsuspecting American public in 1988, it became an instant sensation and Campbell became an instant celebrity (I mean in a pop cultural sense, beyond and in addition to the substantial academic fame he had already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston and the age of surveillance: “It was like a science fiction movie”</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/06/boston-and-the-age-of-surveillance-it-was-like-a-science-fiction-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/06/boston-and-the-age-of-surveillance-it-was-like-a-science-fiction-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet & Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dystopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveillance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Neil M. Richards, law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education: We were living in an age of surveillance before the Boston Marathon bombing, but the event and its investigation produced calls for much greater monitoring of our cities and our lives. The media narrative of the investigation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disruption, catastrophe, and resilience in a hyperfast, hyperconnected world</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/06/disruption-catastrophe-and-resilience-in-a-hyperfast-hyperconnected-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/06/disruption-catastrophe-and-resilience-in-a-hyperfast-hyperconnected-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment & Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[catastrophes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Chronicle of Higher Education, a thought-provoking examination of the ins and outs, both philosophical and practical, of the contemporary reality of disasters, catastrophes, and &#8220;resilience&#8221; &#8212; a word and concept that, as the article points out, is currently all the rage among scholars and policy wonks: In all, [Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Soderbergh on “present shock” and the state of cinema</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/04/steven-soderbergh-on-present-shock-and-the-state-of-cinema/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/04/steven-soderbergh-on-present-shock-and-the-state-of-cinema/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 13:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present shock]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in books and ideas that explore the soul of a culture and civilization that in many ways seems to be flinging itself apart at the seams &#8212; and I know this describes most Teeming Brain readers &#8212; then be advised that Douglas Rushkoff&#8217;s Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, published in March, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying cars and the “world of tomorrow” that never was</title>
		<link>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/03/flying-cars-and-the-world-of-tomorrow-that-never-was/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teemingbrain.com/2013/05/03/flying-cars-and-the-world-of-tomorrow-that-never-was/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Cardin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arts & Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flying cars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Futurism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.teemingbrain.com/?p=9249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You know all of those excellent articles and essays that have appeared in recent months to explore the rosy science fiction-esque visions of our real-world future that characterized American culture during most of the 20th century? (Recall that we noted one of the best of them, David Graeber&#8217;s &#8220;Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate [...]]]></description>
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