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The 20th-century American novel is stuffed with stuff: baseballs, red wheelbarrows, and other bric-a-brac. What’s the point of it all?
In the prefurnished apartment where I have spent most of the last year, I am surrounded by things that seem to vibrate strangely with something like life. On my desk, there are three interchangeable coffee mugs and another, for unknown reasons, that is special to me. There is a lamp that came with the apartment, whose bulb needs to be fussed over every time I turn it on.There are my beloved books, some of them dragged with me from apartment to apartment since college, gathering grime and dust...
Kinds of writing (guest post by Kwame Anthony Appiah)
This is a guest post by Kwame Anthony Appiah (New York University) on reading and writing fiction, for a series of blogposts we are hosting on philosophers who write fiction or poetry (see here for an earlier installment).My mother was an artist who became a writer because she found that it was easier, while raising children, to compose fiction than to paint. (A brief teenage conversation with my mother: "Mummy, why did you stop painting?" "You were born." Guilty silence.) The first draft of ...
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy? - The Philosophical Salon
Debates First as Farce, Then as Tragedy? By Slavoj Žižek • 1 month ago ...
The Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel
The Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel The Guardian - Back to homeContribute Sign inNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleShow MoreFilmBooksMusicArt & designTV & radioStageClassicalGamesLockdown cultureThe Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel Victoria Miro, London; online on Vortic Collect from TuesdayCobalt, indigo, ultramarine; the colour of sadness and a summer’s day… in this uplifting virtual sh...
Philosophers on Buildings
Philosophy ShortsPhilosophers on Buildingsby Matt QvortrupPop songs are usually about variations on the theme of love. ‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Philosophers, likewise, tend to have a narrow focus on epistemology, metaphysics and trifles like the meaning of life. But occasionally great minds stray from their turf and write about other matters, for example...
The Metaphysics of Groundhog Day
From Philosophy Now - a Magazine of ideas (Journal) Issue 141 Pages 12-15
Scrapbooking for Literary people
The Washington Post print edition - 31 Dec 2020, pages C1,C4
Did the universe's creator hide a message in the cosmos?
Did the creator of the universe leave a hidden message in the cosmos for intelligent life? If so, scientists have yet to find it. A search for a message on "the most cosmic of all billboards, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)," has failed, a new study finds. The CMB is the oldest light in the universe, visible across all of space. Its microwaves have been traveling since the first atoms formed out of a haze of protons and electrons that filled the universe soon after ...
An A to Z of Theory Roland Barthes and Semiotics | Ceasefire Magazine
An A to Z of Theory Roland Barthes and Semiotics | Ceasefire MagazineSourceURL: https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-barthes-1/Author: Ziad Shihab . An A to Z of Theory Roland Barthes and Semiotics Roland Barthes was one of the major theorists of culture of the twentieth century. In the first of a six-essay series, political theorist Andrew Robinson presents the French author's app...
White Names
Skip to main content CultureWhy Are My Fellow Whites Still So Awful at Naming Children?Ensley? Kashton? Kairo? KAYCE?! Drew Magary on the terrible baby-naming epidemic of 2018. By Drew MagaryMay 17, 2018Photo Illustration by Alicia Tatone You don’t need me to tell you that white people are feeling overly emboldened these days. It’s 2018 and the whites are out here being whiter than ever: watching Young Sheldon, calling the cops on black people for ordering cake pops, listening to Florida Geo...
Artistic metaphor - The
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Finding Our Bearings with Art
Finding Our Bearings with Art Nowadays people believe that scientists exist to instruct them, poets and musicians to delight them. That these have something to teach them does not occur to them. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen We have come some way from the days when a stone torso fixed a poet and lead him to speak of its gaze, one that saw, even read him head to toe. For many if not most, it is now the reader or viewer or listener that sets the terms of such encounters, a...
Patrick Ffrench - Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics - Bloomsbury, 2019
Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida, along the way responding in depth to those who have explicitly commented on Barthes musings on film and those who have been inspired by them in their ow...
Counter-histories of the Internet
What could the internet have been? We’ve grown so used to our digital networks that they can seem like a force of nature, with laws as immutable as the laws of physics. Yet not long ago, these networks were the object of experiments, conflicts, and at times arbitrary choices. And the fates of many industries hung in the balance. For instance, should users pay for online access in units of time, or of bandwidth, or according to the number of websites they enter? This was once a live question; ...
Parasite and the Plurality of Empire | Public Books
"Parasite" and the Plurality of Empire 6.23.2020 Bong Joon-ho, the director of the Oscar-winning film Parasite, has said that "the film talks about two opposing families, about the rich versus the poor, and that is a universal theme, because we all live in the same country now: that of capitalism." Indeed, the film’s plot is set in motion whe...
SimpC - Rebecca Bees
"Rebecca" Bees http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2020/09/rebecca-bees/ Created September 9, 2020 at 08:54PM Eight and a half years ago Variety‘s Jeff Sneider reported that DreamWorks and Working Title Films had agreed to pool forces on a remake of Alfred Hitchcock‘s Rebecca (’40). The plan was for Nikolaj Arcel to direct and Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight to write the script, but that fell by the wayside along with Universal’s participation. The project eventually wound up at Netflix ...