Author Archive for: ‘Gene Riddle’
A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of …
Aliens or Alienation: The Commoditized Creature that Walk among Us
Alienation is inherently widespread in capitalist society. This occurs because capitalism necessarily renders not only products but also people and our meanings and relationships into things to be instrumentally exchanged.