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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to: Entertainment * Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s * "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto (album), Risotto * Absurd (song), "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses * Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism * Absurd (film), ''Absurd'' (film), 1981 Italian film * Absurd or surreal humour ** Absurdist fiction Philosophy * Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense * Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless * Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction ** ''Reductio ad absurdum'', a type of logical argument {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (band)
Absurd é uma bandaNational Socialist black metal band,conhecidos por matar um cara e usar sua lápide como capa de álbum, banda de cuzão filhos da putaTöten für Wotan'. In: ''Der Spiegel'', no. 38, 2000, 18 September 2000, p 134. and has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz. The band was founded in Sondershausen by Hendrik Möbus (also known as Randall Flagg / Jarl Flagg Nidhögg / JFN) and Sebastian Schauseil in 1992, with a third member, Andreas Kirchner, joining at a later stage. Their lyrics concern nationalistic, pagan (Hendrik Möbus is the founder of the Deutsche Heidnische Front), pro-heathen Germanic Neopaganism, revivalist Germanic, and anti-Judeo-Christian themes. The band achieved infamy because its original members (not in the band since 1999) murdered the 15-year-old Sandro Beyer in 1993. The canonical motive is that Beyer was privy to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risotto (album)
''Risotto'' is the fourth album by British electronica group Fluke. The album was released on 26 May 1997 by Circa Records and 30 September 1997 by Astralwerks. It was the band's last album recorded with Mike Tournier. Overview The album is named after the dish risotto (). The album artwork was designed by The Designers Republic and features a chrome-plated KitchenAid mixer. Many of the tracks that brought Fluke to a larger audience are featured on this album, including "Atom Bomb", used on the '' Wipeout 2097'' soundtrack, and "Absurd," used in many films/trailers, including a 1998 Volkswagen Beetle commercial, ''Sin City'' in 2005, and the episode "Chaos" from the show ''Spaced''. "Absurd" is also used as the main theme for ''Sky Sports ''Monday Night Football'' program first from August 1997 to May 1998 and since August 2010 to the current day. When Fluke was touring for ''Risotto'' they were joined on stage by Rachel Stewart who acted as a personification of the band's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (song)
"Absurd" (stylized as "ABSUЯD") is a song by the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses, released as a single on August 6, 2021. The song marks the group's first release of new material since the release of ''Chinese Democracy'' in 2008. It is also the first new track to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan since the 1994 release of " Sympathy for the Devil". Originally written during the ''Chinese Democracy'' sessions, "Absurd" was first performed live in 2001 as "Silkworms". The reworked version made its live debut on August 3, 2021 in Boston. Background The song was initially written during the ''Chinese Democracy'' sessions as "Silkworms" by keyboardists Chris Pitman and Dizzy Reed. It was performed live four times in 2001. In 2008, Pitman talked about the song in an interview shortly before the release of ''Chinese Democracy'', stating: "It ended up being this incredible track that sounded like Guns N' Roses 10 or 15 years in the future. It was so far removed fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Of The Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd (french: théâtre de l'absurde ) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s. It is also a term for the style of theatre the plays represent. The plays focus largely on ideas of existentialism and express what happens when human existence lacks meaning or purpose and communication breaks down. The structure of the plays is typically a round shape, with the finishing point the same as the starting point. Logical construction and argument give way to irrational and illogical speech and to the ultimate conclusion— silence. Etymology Critic Martin Esslin coined the term in his 1960 essay "The Theatre of the Absurd", which begins by focusing on the playwrights Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, and Eugène Ionesco. Esslin says that their plays have a common denominator — the "absurd", a word that Esslin defines with a quotation from Ionesco: "absurd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurd (film)
''Absurd'' (Italian: ''Rosso Sangue'', literal translation: ''Red Blood''; also known as ''Anthropophagus 2'', ''Zombie 6: Monster Hunter'', ''Horrible'' and ''The Grim Reaper 2'') is a 1981 Italian slasher film directed, lensed and co-produced by Joe D'Amato and starring George Eastman, who also wrote the story and screenplay. Plot Mikos Tanoupoulos is a man who was experimented on in a church-sanctioned scientific experiment that gave him a healing factor but inadvertently drove him insane. The Vatican priest who helped create him pursues the homicidal Mikos to a small American town, attempting to kill him by impaling him on a set of railings which disembowel him, but he is revived later in a local hospital. After brutally murdering a nurse, the madman escapes and goes on a killing spree. The priest informs the hospital and authorities that the only way to kill Mikos is to "destroy the cerebral mass." While attacking a motorcyclist after escaping from the hospital, Mikos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surreal Humour
Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical. Portrayals of surreal humour tend to involve bizarre juxtapositions, incongruity, non-sequiturs, irrational or absurd situations, and expressions of nonsense. Surreal humour grew out of surrealism, a cultural movement developed in the 20th century by French and Belgian artists, who depicted unnerving and illogical scenes while developing techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. The movement itself was foreshadowed by English writers in the 19th century, most notably Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. The humour in surreal comedy arises from a subversion of audience expectations, emphasizing the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of a situation, so that amusement is founded on an unpredictability that is separate from a logical analysis of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurdist Fiction
Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. The absurdist genre of literature arose in the 1950s and 1960s, first predominantly in France and Germany, prompted by post-war disillusionment. Absurdist fiction is a reaction against the surge in Romanticism in Paris in the 1830s, the collapse of religious tradition in Germany, and the societal and philosophical revolution led by the expressions of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing". Absurdist fiction in play form is known as Absurdist Theatre. Both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurdity
An absurdity is a state or condition of being extremely unreasonable, meaningless or unsound in reason so as to be irrational or not taken seriously. "Absurd" is an adjective used to describe an absurdity, e.g., "Tyler and the boys laughed at the absurd situation." It derives from the Latin ''absurdum'' meaning "out of tune", hence irrational. The Latin ''surdus'' means "deaf", implying stupidity. Absurdity is contrasted with being realistic or reasonable In general usage, absurdity may be synonymous with fanciful, foolish, bizarre, wild or nonsense. In specialized usage, absurdity is related to extremes in bad reasoning or pointlessness in reasoning; ridiculousness is related to extremes of incongruous juxtaposition, laughter, and ridicule; and nonsense is related to a lack of meaningfulness. Absurdism is a concept in philosophy related to the notion of absurdity. History Absurdity has been used throughout history regarding foolishness and extremely poor reasoning to form b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Absurdism
Absurdism is the philosophical theory that existence in general is absurd. This implies that the world lacks meaning or a higher purpose and is not fully intelligible by reason. The term "absurd" also has a more specific sense in the context of absurdism: it refers to a conflict or a discrepancy between two things but there are several disagreements about their exact nature. These disagreements have various consequences for whether absurdism is true and for the arguments cited in favor and against it. Popular accounts characterize the conflict as a collision between rational man and an irrational universe, between intention and outcome, or between subjective assessment and objective worth. An important aspect of absurdism is its claim that the world ''as a whole'' is absurd. It differs in this regard from the uncontroversial and less global thesis that some ''particular'' situations, persons, or phases in life are absurd. Various components of the absurd are discussed in the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises in a topic-neutral way. When used as a countable noun, the term "a logic" refers to a logical formal system that articulates a proof system. Formal logic contrasts with informal logic, which is associated with informal fallacies, critical thinking, and argumentation theory. While there is no general agreement on how formal and informal logic are to be distinguished, one prominent approach associates their difference with whether the studied arguments are expressed in formal or informal languages. Logic plays a central role in multiple fields, such as philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Logic studies arguments, which consist of a set of premises together with a conclusion. Premises and conclusions are usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
