There’s a particular kind of cursed vibe that’s everywhere. It’s all over culture. The news vibrates with it. It may be even key to understanding the way art and politics feed each other right now.

Batman’s war against Black Mask and the Party Animals gang comes to a boiling point as he pushes the limits of their “truce”. The continuous, back and forth antagonism between ...

As China’s Lunar New Year holiday continues throughout this week, CDT Chinese editors have collected and republished over a dozen essays, articles, and other content reflecting the zeitgeist of ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

We live in an age of humanitarianism that rhymes far too closely with nihilism. The modern discourse of aid and compassion has become a theatre of posturing, a stage on which politicians and ...

“Nihilism” comes from the Latin word nihil, or nothing, or “that which does not exist.” Nihilism can be defined as the belief that all values, and therefore institutions, are baseless ...

This is about puerility, provocation and a strain of nihilism. And it really does scare me. McLean: I agree with that. Both Trump and Musk have that quality — I’m going to call it carelessness ...

“There’s no point in saving for the future because we’re going to have war, revolution, and it’s all going to come to a violent end.” I’ve also heard that young people aren’t saving for retirement ...