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The Polish Journal of Aesthetics:

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Putin and Dugin

With Reiner Schürmann through Krefeld

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Genders and Zodiacs

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Interview in Persian (Kheradvarzi)

Flat Truths and Flat Lies. The Thunberg-Trump Syndrom

Blog: What I think why Westerners join the Islamic State

The New Geography of Eastern Europe. Peace Magazine

Dandyism Daoism & PC

Interview with T. Botz-Bornstein in Transcultural Studies

"The Futurist Aesthetics of ISIS." Aesthetics and Culture

Blog: Veils and Guns. Donald Trump and the Ayatollahs

might hate each other but they have one thing in common

Blog: Post on Tariq Ramadan and Henda Ayari

Short Story: ‘In Germany all Trains go from Left to Right.’

Parasite - The Book

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So much kitsch in Eastern Europe

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr

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The definition of a word

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Ecstasy in 3 different traditions

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Do You Know What Philosophy Is?

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Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture and the Work of Bela Tarr

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Inception and Philosophy

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The Monstrous Darkness of Tomorrow. Promotional video

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The Aesthetics of ISIS and

Italian Futurism

On Werckmeister Harmonies.

ZKM Karlsruhe

China and America: Culture and Civilization. Part 1 Part 2

Cairo Book Fair 2019 Introducing '"Deculturation"

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Kuwait 2059. A Cyberpunk Novella

The Singapore interview

The End of Liberalism.

Thorsten talks with M.A.R. Habib about Habib's new book

Hegel and Empire

Kitsch and Bullshit

"Islamic Futurism."

Lecture at Virginia Commonwealth University April 2019

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The bright side of life (1 min)

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Speculative Realism (Satire) (3 min)

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Plagiarism (2 min)

Compilation of all cartoons (15 min)

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So You Want to Submit an Academic Article? (6 min)

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So You Want to Take a Critical Thinking Class? (3 min)

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Piano

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Thorsten plays Schubert's

Impromptu 90: 2

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Thorsten plays Nietzsche's Heldenklage

Thorsten plays his FIVE favorite BAROQUE pieces

Piano Improvisation

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Song of Ecstasy in

a Sad Landscape

More piano Pieces:

Chopin Etude 10: 10 A flat Major

Chopin Etude 10: 3 E-major

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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Art: The Korea Mini-Christ series

America against China: Civilization without Culture vs. Culture without Civilization?

Japanese culture

The Veil Project Reveille or Surveillance?

Provocative article: Can Refugees be Nietzscheans?

What if the main difference between civilizational blocks is that some have read Nietzsche and others haven’t?

Virtual Reality The Last Human Narrative?

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Blade Runner 2049

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FILM Book Series

Pictures of Reima Pietila's Kuwait Buildings (before and after).

St. Louis Conceptual Tourist Guide

The Kuwait Before-After Picture series

Archive

In Dreamland. A philosophical story for children and adults with outrageous absurdities, illogical constellations, and surrealistic nonsense (in German).

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Conference in Kuwait

"Tracking Global Wokeism"

Organized by the GUST Global Studies Center

Link to Conference:

"Unity between East and West" At GUST, Kuwait.Feb. 7-9 2019.

Obituary of Ingmar Bergman On the Rowman & Littlefield website

Thorsten talks about "Cool and kawaii" on BYU Radio.

"The Morning Show with Marcus Smith." Click on "Listen now" and fast forward to 85'.

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Helsinki Conference 2018: The development of the Pietila Ministry in Kuwait

Chronique d'une vie dans une université noire aux Etats-Unis (in French). Le Monde blog 2007-2009.

Conference on the book Organic Cinema in Budapest

in Budapest

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GSC Newsletter

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The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy

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