Beatnik
How the media's word "beatnik" turned Kerouac's "beat" into a caricature, and how fast serious ideas become costumes.
Existentialism
Freedom without instructions, and the anxiety that comes with it.
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Absurdism
The absurd isn’t in you or the world — it’s the gap between them, and it’s wider than ever.
Existentialism
Existentialism isn’t a philosophy—it’s a refusal to let philosophy do your living for you.
Patricia Highsmith
A writer who gave queer love its first happy ending—and spent her life denying humanity to everyone else.
Simone de Beauvoir
Beauvoir did not free women — she insisted they were already free, and demanded they act like it.