On Sadness (Part 1)
By Mark McConaghy
Despite our technological and material mastery over the world, why does melancholy still persist?
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On Happiness
In this essay, Mark McConaghy asks the question: what is happiness in this day and age of bourgeois normalcy? Is being happy possible? And should it be considered the very point of existence itself? The new semester is upon us and the old familiar rhythms have returned. For those readers of ours who have worked […]
Read more "On Happiness"Lego Utopia – Building Block 1: Being
by Sean Callaghan The Screw It Principle We have gone on at some length on this website about the problems we face today in our economic, social, cultural, political spheres, etc. A few posts ago Mark McConaghy made the astute observation that the fundamental problem tying all our contemporary failures together is simply the absence […]
Read more "Lego Utopia – Building Block 1: Being"A Politics Without a Name
By Mark McConaghy For the last couple of years we have heard nothing but glowing news reports about Brazil’s rapid economic growth. This was South America’s answer to China- a regional dominant that was growing into a global economic powerhouse, replete with double digit GDP expansion and a sky rocketing demand for commodities of all […]
Read more "A Politics Without a Name"The Voice of Another World
By Sean Callaghan Marketing The Voice I know all the reasons why I should hate a show like The Voice. As a show premised on the search for singing talent based solely on vocal ability The Voice falls victim too easily to the glittering bedazzlement of televised spectacle. It’s over-produced. It magnifies the cult of […]
Read more "The Voice of Another World"Everything is Fine: Rob Ford and Existential Exhaustion
By Mark McConaghy I will start by stating an obvious but important fact: the irony of doing political or creative work is that, above all else, one must have the time to engage in it. If you want to go out and raise awareness about an issue, either online or through old fashioned door knocking, […]
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Mark McConaghy on the Passing of Noted Film Critic Roger Ebert. Film critic and writer Roger Ebert has died. Thousands of people have expressed their sorrow on twitter, facebook, blogs, and in print. The outpouring has come from famous filmmakers and powerful politicians to everyday people, all of whom were touched in some way by […]
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The 14th Floor 