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Prescribing Creativity - The Meta-Diaries of Marion Milner

May 9th, 2024

Marion Milner, The Angry Parrot. All images from Marion Milner’s On Not Being Able to Paint (Routledge, 2010), reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group."Before the problem of the creative artist," Freud famously declared in an essay on Russian literature, "analysis must, alas, lay down its arms." Our creative potential—as it is expressed in the most ordinary dream or jokes, or in the extraordinary compositions of great artists—has always been a vital theme in psychoanalysis, but i...

With and Against

April 12th, 2024

By James Rushing Daniel.   Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International and the Age of Automation (Verso, 2023) In the contemporary art world dominated by glitzy international fairs and heavily licensed celebrity artists, it’s sometimes hard to fathom that art once held more serious political ambitions. Throughout the history of the avant-garde, from Dada to Fluxus, artists, in vastly different national contexts and through a variety of media, sought to cr...

Write, Rinse, Repeat: Text and Context in Derrida’s SEC and in Literary Studies

February 16th, 2024

What today do we make of these issues, so central, so provocative, even galvanizing in Derrida’s early texts: significations and codes, speech and writing, citation and iterability? The temptation is to respond: not much. It’s been a long time since most literary critics or even theorists were moved by concerns pertaining to language and discourse. No doubt, this is with some right—these issues became "played out," as some say, with seemingly little new or urgent left to be said about them, o...

Puzzle Platform Games

February 13th, 2024

Some things just go together. Cereal and milk. Cake and ice cream. Puzzle games and platformer titles. The third combo may not be as well known to non-gamer audiences, but that's all about to change. On any console, puzzle platformers offer a high degree of entertainment and satisfaction to players.  The two genres match because they both offer a mixture of exploration and ingenuity. Jumping from one place to the next is fun, but figuring out where to jump is even better! Puzzler platform gam...

ROBOT DREAMS: Pablo Berger Talks Nostalgia in Animated Love Letter to New York

December 29th, 2023

Spanish director Pablo Berger, known for his black-and-white silent film Blancanieves and Abracadabra, has ventured into a new realm with his latest project, animated bromance with melancholic pang Robot Dreams. The silent film, nominated for best European animation film, explores themes of friendship, loss, and nostalgia through the story of a dog and its robot companion. We meet in the center of Berlin; Berger arriving is animated and full of energy, willing to discuss any subject m...

Philosophy of Composition

December 16th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Philosophy of Composition (idea) See all of The Philosophy of Composition, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by ceylonbreakfast Sat May 07 2005 at 3:27:46 Essay on writing by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), first published in Graham's Magazine, April 1846. It's not altogether clear how serious this essay is. While taken seriously in France, it's often considered to poke fun at simplistic decoders of literature in the Un...

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Paper Rose - Araz Eleyasian

October 27th, 2023

tutoring the teacherby Douglas MesserliTalin Agon and Araz Eleyasian (screenplay), Araz Eleyasian (director) The Paper Rose / 2018 [9 minutes]A very frustrated English teacher, Toni (Bronte Pearce) is nervous about her day in school. She’s teaching Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a book she clearly loves. But when we see the antics of her students, each spending the classroom time sending text messages to the others when they’re not taunting the quiet Johnny (Damian Hempstead), we compre...

New online Aardman series is a loving parody of superhero comics

October 27th, 2023

World-renowned animation company Aardman has launched a new series exclusive to YouTube called Adventures of ArachnoFly. We caught up with creator Matt Walker to learn how it was made and what viewers can expect. Aardman has entertained viewers for decades, with its animated characters like Morph and Wallace and Gromit becoming household names. More recently, it has moved from claymation to 3D, with series such as Lloyd of the Flies which follows the adventures of a humble bluebottle calle...

literary language

October 26th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 literary language (idea) See all of literary language, there is 1 more in this node. (idea) by darl Thu Aug 10 2006 at 17:29:19 What is literary language? Introduction Many critics and poets have tried to nail this down. It's a slippery eel, it really is. It's been defined as "the familiar made strange" (Attridge), which is a nice way to put it. I got out a dictionary, the OED 2nd Ed. and looked up 'literary' to be pointed t...

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Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television

October 20th, 2023

Fully:Cultural Sophistication and Self-Reference on American Television: Seeds of Hope?by Ralph DumainGenerally when I look at American culture these days I see little but degeneracy. I am rarely heartened even by the obvious sophistication that our society has achieved in certain respects over the past two decades, because it is so heavily counterbalanced by increased fragmentation, intellectual laziness, dehumanization, and superficiality. The sophistication that we do have is not so much a...

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Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind (idea) by apathy42 - Everything2.com

October 19th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind (idea) See all of Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind, there are 2 more in this node. (idea) by apathy42 Fri Aug 29 2003 at 4:01:27 This statement is the primary commandment of the Great Convention in the universe of Dune (written by Frank Herbert). It is not only a civil law, but also a religious commandment, featured in the Orange Catholic Bi...

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Adaptation, Appropriation, Translation - Online, 8-10 Dec 2023

September 3rd, 2023

updated:     Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am    full name / name of organization:           Theatre and Drama Network (TDN)        contact email:     theatredramanetwork@gmail.com    categories (up to 5):     ecocriticism and environmental studiesfilm and televisiontheatretheorytwentieth century and beyond    deadline for submissions:     September 30, 2023In her work, A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon describes the term "adaptation" as "[a]n acknowledged transposition of a recog...

Stealing Reason from God - Theft in Time Bandits and The Fisher King

August 31st, 2023

Time Bandits (1981) | Avco Embassy Pictures> Theft as metaphor/metaphor as theftWho is the God of the white man of the midwestern United States? And once we know who God is, we have to ask: does he have anything worth nicking? Former American Terry Gilliam has directed 12½ feature films, all of them fantastical reflections of our society and its foibles. Gilliam is the most cynical fantasist in cinema, and his surreal, misty films often put our own bad behavior on display. Gilliam crafts a sh...

Teenage Woodcarver Aims to Reclaim His Legacy By Retrieving Stolen Art

August 28th, 2023

Tania James’s novel Loot is a deeply affecting, deliciously imaginative spin on how 18th century Mysorean Ruler, Tipu Sultan’s infamous automaton—"Tipu’s Tiger"—came into being. James, in her typical out-of-the-box imagination, has given voice and life to the (historically unknown) makers of the life-sized mechanical tiger, fully equipped with sound and movement, mauling a British soldier, currently on display in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.https://bookshop.org/a/269/978059353597417-y...

From Leir to Lear

August 27th, 2023

From Leir to Lear Shakespeare, literary architect, performs a gut renovation and creates a classic. The execution of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot: Claes Jansz Visscher’s contemporary etching depicts Londoners gazing from rooftops, windows and streets as four Gunpowder plotters are drawn to the site of execution. James Shapiro ’77 is the Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature and an eminent Shakespeare specialist: the Shakespeare Scholar in Residence at New Yo...

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EVER WANTED TO WRITE THE 'ART WANK' FROM MONA?

July 25th, 2023

Fender Katsalidis Architects Architect - Victoria Profile Projects Updates Contacts Fender Katsalidis Architects > Updates > EVER WANTED TO WRITE THE 'ART WANK' FROM MONA? EVER WANTED TO WRITE THE 'ART WANK' FROM MONA? 18 August 2019 by Fender Katsalidis Architects Jane Clark of Mona is actually paid to write what 'art wank' for a living. Here she talks about writing the micro-essays that guide you through Hobart's acclaime...

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Raphael’s School of Athens: Greek Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance

February 26th, 2023

Who’s on the Guest List?‘The School of Athens’, Raphael, c.1509–11 (Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City).Like Studying Homer in a "Damaged Manuscript"Raphael (1483–1520) is the most influential painter of the Italian Renaissance; his work embodies the balance, order, harmony and restraint of classicism. He was a passionate antiquarian, and used his expertise as an archaeologist as an inspiration for his art; yet he was too dignified to show off his knowledge, preferring to ...

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

February 7th, 2023

More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...

Mukundan Unni Associates 2022 - A Metamodern Replica of The Tragedy of Macbeth

January 29th, 2023

Mukundan Unni Associates (2022): A discussion of Shakespeare adaptations isn’t exactly a "thing" right now, thanks to his oeuvre covering most (if not all) plot points and the fact that few films aren’t Shakespearean in some way. We have reached a point where a film’s (or any text’s) similitude to one of his plays falls flat. Now it is easy to overlook – for lack of a better word – the late British playwright’s (whose authorship is still contested by conspiracy theorists and obstinate Marlowe...

Understanding Renaissance Master Raphael through 5 Key Artworks - Artsy

January 29th, 2023

HomeSearchHomeMuseumsArtistsArticlesShowsArt FairsGalleriesAuctionsHomeArtworksAuctionsGalleriesFairsMagazineMoreArtworksAuctionsGalleriesFairsMagazineArtistsShowsMuseumsArtsy for GalleriesLog inSign upArtUnderstanding Renaissance Master Raphael through 5 Key ArtworksAlina CohenApr 16, 2019 11:42 amRaphael, Self-portrait, ca. 1506. Image via Wikimedia Commons.RaphaelThe Prophets Hosea and Jonah, ca. 1510National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.Known for his passionate love affairs, good looks,...

Fight Club as Philosophy - I Am Jacks Existential Struggle

January 16th, 2023

Fight Club as Philosophy: I Am Jack’s Existential Struggle AbstractThe aim of this chapter is to analyze the movie Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, written by Jim Uhls, and first released in the fall of 1999. The movie is based on the homonym novel by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 1996. I will argue that Fight Club is to be understood in primarily existentialist, nonethical, and nonevidential terms, showing the...

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TED K - A War Brewing Inside a Man

January 6th, 2023

There are plenty of arguments about what Ted Kaczynski’s philosophy, put forth through a manifesto forcibly published in The Washington Post, is really saying. It’s been in vogue to reconsider some of his points as reasonable and in common with the disillusioned younger generations of America. Tony Stone’s movie Ted K doesn’t really dig into the ideas within Kaczynski’s manifesto as talking points but rather, simply recapitulates them out as voiceovers juxtaposed with various imagery that may...