Us Weekly’s poetry of Brangelina
Recently, I have been thinking about starting a new news commentary blog. I read a lot of news, I figured, and I probably have a lot to say about them, but who will listen? Then of course I realized that this was precisely the reason I originally created Ennui- just to get that great big pot of crazy off my chest. Sadly, maybe because I have not been following news as carefully as I should have, I feel like it has been a long time since I’ve seen a news segment fully worthy of an extended Ennui-esque commentary. So imagine my relief when I came across Us Weekly’s Exclusive: Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama.
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The Return of Ennui
Hello Cyberspace!
Pavlov here, after an administrative hiatus. It has been a while since Ennui Magazine has been active- a great dispersal has overtaken our writers and editors, spreading Ennui into at least 16 different timezones- that’s not even an exaggeration. However, life is just not the same without this project, and so over the next couple of months, we will slowly be relaunching this website and bringing the amount of our material up to a consistent rate. Like what you read here? Please join our email list, and we will start delivering weekly digests of ennui directly to your inbox!
Looking forward to writing for you again!
Love,
Pavlov
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News
Us Weekly’s poetry of Brangelina Recently, I have been thinking about starting a new news commentary blog. I read a lot of news, I figured, and I probably have a lot to say about them, but who will listen? Then of course I realized that this was precisely the reason I originally created Ennui- just to get that great big pot of crazy off my chest. Sadly, maybe because I have not been following news as carefully as I should have, I feel like it has been a long time since I’ve seen a news segment fully worthy of an extended Ennui-esque commentary. So imagine my relief when I came across Us Weekly’s Exclusive: Angelina Jolie Not a Fan of Obama.
Reviews
A review of Steve Erickson’s novel, Zeroville IN the hands of actors, writers, directors and producers, Hollywood is a dream factory, a place that cranks out wish fulfillment scenarios like assembly lines manufacture automobiles. In novelist Steve Erickson’s hands, Hollywood is a fever dream, a waking nightmare that elucidates the truth of the self that only movies can attempt to uncover. ZEROVILLE — the latest novel by CalArts professor, Los Angeles Magazine contributor and literary cult figure Erickson — delves into the mystery and allure of celluloid, where a master shot gives the audience its bearing, but the close-up scrambles all perspective and engulfs the collective psyche in freeze-frame moments spanning whole lifetimes.
Cultural Observations
Hypothetical Fat Men THIS summer, I’m doing some research on the doing/allowing problem—the philosophical debate over whether there’s a moral difference between directly causing harm to someone and allowing harm to come to that person—with one of my favorite philosophy professors. It’s been rewarding; I’m learning a lot about several deep issues in ethical theory, issues surrounding the rational authority of moral reasons, the relationship between reactive attitudes and the impersonal evaluative standpoint, and the commensurability of various sorts of practical reasons. Nonetheless, my work so far has put me in a position to make a rather uncomfortable observation: philosophers like to endanger fat men. Consider just a few examples from the ethical theory literature.
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