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Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962 in Pasco, Washington, USA) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official web site. His writings, similar in style to those of such peers as Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh, and Douglas Coupland, have made him on ...

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As noted above, Palahniuk has met with some negative labeling from the media. Some members of the media have labeled him as a "shock writer" because of the abnormality of the situations in his writing, which are treated humorously rather than with criticism for the actions of the characters. There is also some questioning of whether or not the non-fiction factoids that appear in his novels are actually needed, and this is only further used to make the "shock writer" argument. Many critics claim that Palahniuk's works are nihilistic, or explo ...

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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing, that are primary. That is, they cannot be reduced to or be explained by a natural-scientific approach or any approach that attempts to detach itself from or rise above these themes. Human beings are exposed to or, to use the philosopher Martin Heidegger's phrase, "thrown" into, existence. Existentialists consider being ...

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Nihilism as a philosophical position is the view that the world, and especially human existence, is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value. Some philosophers are considered nihilists if they hold the philosophical position that either (1) nothing exists (all there is is nothing), (2) the reality we humans experience does not exist at all as we see it, or (3) reality is unknowable, and thus the pursuit of objective understanding is pointless. It is more often a charge leveled against a particular idea ...

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A baby boomer is someone who is born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity that in many countries followed World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographers have identified with birth years between 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U.S. birth rate actually began to decline after 1957. Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial and academic leadership class in the United ...

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Palahniuk (pronounced PAUL-ah-nik or Pôlənĭk) is the son of Carol and Fred Palahniuk, and grew up living in a mobile home in Burbank, Washington, with his family. His parents later separated and divorced, often leaving him and his three siblings to live with their grandparents at their cattle ranch in eastern Washington.[1] In his twenties, Palahniuk attended the University of Oregon's School of Journalism, graduating in 1986. While attending c ...

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When Palahniuk made his first attempt at publishing a novel (Invisible Monsters) publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. Palahniuk wrote this story in between working while on the job for Freightliner. After initially publishing it as a short story (which became chapter 6 of the novel) in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which, contrary to what he ex ...

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Throughout the novel, Palahniuk uses the narrator and Tyler to comment on how people in modern society try to find meaning in their lives through commercial culture. Several lines in the novel make reference to this lifestyle as meaningless. Usually Palahniuk delivers this through overt methods, but there are also some allegorical references as well; for instance, the narrator, upon looking at the contents of his refrigerator, notices he has "a house full of condiments and no real food."^{See also:}

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The film won the following awards: the 2000 Empire Award (UK) for Best British Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) the 2001 Online Film Critics Society Awards for Best DVD, Best DVD Commentary, and Best DVD Special Features the 2005 Total Film Magazine Award (UK) for "The Greatest Film of our Lifetime" It was also nominated for the following awards: the 2000 Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing the 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Action Team (Bra ...

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Image:Fightclubcard.jpg Fight Club was released in the United States on October 15, 1999 to mixed reviews. While some critics raved about the film, many high-profile critics denounced it. Janet Maslin of The New York Times compared it favorably to American Beauty while Roger Ebert called it "macho porn." The graphic violence of the fights seemed to upset most critics, although only one person is actually killed in the film. The film opened with $11 million, a surprise #1 movie in a close race that weekend at the b ...

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Herbert Marcuse criticized existentialism, especially in Sartre's Being and Nothingness, for projecting certain features, such as anxiety and meaninglessness, of the modern experience of living in an oppressive society, onto the nature of existence itself: "In so far as Existentialism is a philosophical doctrine, it remains an idealistic doctrine: it hypothesizes specific historical conditions of human existence into ontological and metaphysical characteristics. Existentialism thus becomes part of the very ideology which it attacks, and its radicalism is ...

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Existentialism - Film directors. Ingmar Bergman Eric Rohmer Alain Robbe-Grillet Richard Linklater David O. Russell Michelangelo Antonioni Jean-Luc Godard François Truffaut Mamoru Oshii Existentialism - Novelists and playwrights. Existentialist novelists were generally seen as a mid-1950s phenomenon that continued until the mid- to late 1970s. Most of the major writers were either French or fro ...

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There have been various movements in art, such as surrealism and cubism, which have been criticized for touching on nihilism, and others like Dada which have embraced it openly. More generally, modern art has been criticised as nihilistic due to its often non-representative nature, as happened with the Nazi party's Degenerate art exhibit. Nihilistic themes can be found in literature and music as well. This is especially true of contemporary music and literature, where the uncertainty following what some perceive as the demise of modernism is explored in detail. ...

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While there is no consensus on the exact definition of "terrorism", the word is typically used to describe politically motivated acts of violence, threatened use of violence or the destruction of property with the intention to intimidate governments or civilians. Acts meeting these criteria and committed in the name of environmental causes would accurately be described as "eco-terrorism". This should be distinguished from "environmental terrorism", which is more properly described as attacks on (or using) the environment ...

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A minimalist painting, for example, will typically use a limited number of colors, and have a simple geometric design. Minimalist sculpture on the other hand is greatly focused on the materials (see David Smith and Donald Judd). While many believe minimalism to be a movement specific to geometric representations, it extends far outside this constraint. There were three notable phases of the minimalist movement: First the distillation of the forms wherein the greatest contributors were probably the Russian Constructivists and th ...

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Environmentalist wacko, Econazi and Ecoterrorist are labels that conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh uses to describe what he considers to be extremely radical environmentalists. He has applied all three of these terms to such groups as the Sierra Club and Greenpeace. According to Limbaugh, some "environmentalist wackos" and "econazis" reject all forms of higher technology (electrical, mechanical, medicine, etc) and want the United States to abolish the automobile, stop using oil and gas, and revert to an ag ...

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Many critics point to the fact that Gen Y lacks any consistent literary figure [12] that represents the generation, as all previous generations seem to have had. Although J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are immensely popular, the series isn't widely regarded as literary items of Gen Y in particular, as the popularity of the books can be attributed to Rowling's unique approach to literature. She is ofte ...

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Many critics point to the fact that Gen Y lacks any consistent literary figure [9] that represents the generation, as all previous generations seem to have had. The only possible candidate may be the Harry Potter series. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bell Jar, and Girl, Interrupted have all received cult followings but still remain unknown to those less affiliated with books and reading in general. The Rules of Attraction and American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis as well as the works of ...

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