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Peter Bebergal
The Failure of the New Subjectivity
The dog-eared copies of works that have changed the inner lives of nerdy shy high-schoolers generation after generation have, over the course of the last decades, found new incarnations in the very people that stole them from the school libraries. From Camus to Nietzsche, Emerson to Kerouac, the reckless, the damned, and the radical individualists are now lived-texts in the songs and stylings of folks like Manson, Korn, and Kevin Smith. Sadly, the new voices of existentialism are a constant reminder of the failure of that once life-affirming notion: subjectivity.
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