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

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...

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Main Author: Omedi Ochieng
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17613/k06p-j191
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