Amid the relentless news that bombards us each day,it's easy to feel a sense of despair – and perhaps even easier to think that, in the halt, and it all amounts to not-very-much-at-all. In this segment,Brooke explores our longstanding fascination with nihilism: that moment in which "a culture discovers that its most esteemed values are for nothing." She speaks with Radiolab co-host Jad Abumrad, as well as Jad's brother-in-law Eugene Thacker, and professor of media studies and author of In the Dust of This Planet. They talk approximately the different forms of nihilism found throughout history,and how they might attend us make sense of our own unthinkable world.
Source: thetakeaway.org