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The Filmosophy Manifesto
Saturday, August 18, 2007
‘A Scanner Darkly: the pure manifestation of fluid film-thinking’
It has been a long held suspicion of mine that bad film criticism is a product of filmgoers who are themselves habitually poor listeners. By this I cast no aspersions upon those who for whatever reason neglect to recognize [...]
Last Days and Tacit Cinema
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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[a repost while I finish up this time-consuming essay on French Decadence]
The scene begins tight on the bay window of a rehearsal studio. Inside the shadowy semblance of Kurt Cobain clamors with instruments in a sort of somnolent ecstasy. The camera leisurely pulls back for several minutes revealing the expanse of the [...]
Closer (the Android Interpretation)
Friday, December 29, 2006
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[This is a repost from a time when I had gumption. I dredge it back up because it is a Clive Owen picture and after seeing ‘Children of Men’ I wanted to contuinue the celebration of my favorite bloke]
“What do you have to do to get some fucking intimacy around here?” – [...]
Notes From Underground: The Playlist
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
An anecdote and then the antidote.
I am/was an underground man. The first time I read Dostoevsky’s ‘Notes from Underground’ I was twenty or twenty-one, a couple years younger than the novel’s protagonist during its second part, ‘An Occasion of Wet Snow’. I was going through my own ‘occasion’ at the time and in [...]
The Persistence of Divine Reason in Modern Scholarship
Thursday, December 21, 2006
‘But this is an old and everlasting story: what happened in old times with the Stoics still happens today, as soon as ever a philosophy begins to believe in itself. It always creates the world in its own image; it cannot do otherwise’
– F. NietzscheIn my first year of undergraduate studies I [...]
Johnny in Naked
Friday, September 29, 2006
Finally! I have been waiting for what feels like forever for someone to add clips from ‘Naked’ into YouTube, a film that I think is shamefully overlooked and I suspect many people born after a certain age are generally unaware about even if they do know the more recent award-winning films of director Mike [...]
Ivan’s Rebellion and the Social Contract
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Ethical questions posed in the comment thread of the ‘When the Levees Broke’ post have inspired me to compile my thoughts into a more cohesive form. In the following post my references to ‘The Social Contract’ pertain to the exemplar of the subject, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s text, ‘The Social Contract’, as it anticipated the character [...]
The Russian Novel
Friday, August 25, 2006
[yeah it is a repost, but a damn good one]
Eighty pages from the end of ‘The Idiot’, and I need to say something about the Russian novel, or rather, the “Russian novel as idea”, for what can I honestly say about the Russian novel – I am not Russian, know not a word of the [...]
Abstract and Existential Reason
Saturday, June 24, 2006
For whatever reason these last few months I have been accosted by a variety of different rational arguments seeking to disprove the existence of the soul. Sometimes I join in on the discussion but most times I have a strong aversion to the underlying principles of the discussion. I feel certain that [...]
The Identity crisis of the Elderly Artist Genius in Sixteenth Century Italy
Monday, February 27, 2006
The notion of individual talent bore a talismanic significance in the fertile imagination of Cinquecento art theorists; at its most enthusiastic this conceit ushered in a new era in Italian art whereby a small number of artists invested with a hitherto unparalleled position of authority widely influenced the aesthetic tastes of their own lifetimes. [...]
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