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Relativity of Time and Freedom

February 23rd, 2024

An Untimely Escape: The Relativity of Time and Freedom in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad 2nd October 2023Academic blogSenne van der Zijden Everyone aboard? Next stop, freedom. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad cleverly interweaves time and space in a fictional network that reinvents the history of the underground railroad, and the pathways to freedom it provided. The historical basis of this novel nevertheless proves to be in an ambiguous relat...

Sculptures in Time

November 8th, 2023

The veteran filmmaker Heinz Emigholz is probably best known for his one hundred architectural films without people or voices. In The Last City (2020), he returns to narrative filmmaking after twenty-five years. The result is an irreverent mix of the casual and perfectionist, the absurd and the confessional, a handmade, queer set of collisions. The film starts with an archaeologist and a weapons designer – who, in a prior life, knew each other as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst – meeting at an...

Time Cube - Wikipedia

October 3rd, 2023

Time Cube Article Talk Language Watch Edit Time Cube was a pseudoscientific personal web page founded in 1997 by the self-proclaimed "wisest man on earth," Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.[1] It was a self-published outlet for Ray's theory of everything, also called "Time Cube," which polemically claims that all modern sciences are participating in a worldwide c...

Oracle of Delphi's Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece

September 28th, 2023

The Oracle of Delphi's Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece  Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceThe Oracle of Delphi's Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece The Oracle of Delphi’s Advice That Shaped Ancient Greece By Philip Chrysopoulos September 28, 2023  Facebook  The ancient Greek oracle of Delphi has given some accurate advice or "prophecies" that actually shaped Ancient Greece. Image: Eugène Delacroix – Lycurgus ...

anachronisms

September 12th, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 anachronism (thing) See all of anachronism, there is 1 more in this node. (thing) by ThatGuy Sun Feb 27 2005 at 3:15:06 Anachronism commonly occurs in films due to oversight by the director or by the writer. It manifests itself showing Scottish warriors wearing kilts before they were invented, cold-war era spies using GPS, and planes during the times of the American Civil War. Generally, bouts of anachronism are overlooked, howe...

Beside You in Time

September 5th, 2023

illustration by Marc AspinallA woman dives off a yacht into the shimmering waters of the Amalfi Coast, simultaneously imprisoned by, and freed from, her future self. Only, before, she doesn’t know it yet. You see, time is relative. When she glimpses the woman––who is, in fact, herself––swan into the sea as she approaches the yacht by motor boat, she’s a stranger to the woman she will become, first seen in lean silhouette, a symbol of her desired extrication from an abusive husband who is both...

Heinz Insu Fenkl on Exploring Memory, Identity

March 1st, 2023

Heinz Insu Fenkl was born in South Korea to a Korean mother and a German father who was a GI in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Korea until age twelve, then in Germany and the U.S. His autobiographical first novel, Memories of My Ghost Brother, a 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, draws upon his childhood, as does this second novel, which is set in part across the North Han River from Sambong-ni, his mother’s native village. "Skull Water was initially a memoir, and I drew extensively from my lif...

God's Time

February 26th, 2023

There’s no time like the present in Daniel Antebi’s fast-paced feature debut, "God’s Time." From the moment Regina (Liz Caribel) sits down to share her grievances to an Addicts Anonymous group, the movie’s main character Dev (Ben Groh), cuts in and talks directly to the audience, filling us in on what we don’t yet know. This isn’t Regina’s first time spilling her emotions to the group—it’s part of a months-long series of complainants about the dirtbag boyfriend who moved in, took over her apa...

Chronological Table on the History of Incunabula | Incunabula

December 3rd, 2022

Chronological Table on the History of Incunabula 2nd half of 4th century The form of books shifted from scroll to codex. In Europe, Coptic binding came into use. 2nd half of 7th century Celtic manuscripts, The Book of Durrow and The Lindisfarne Gospels were produced. End of 8th century The Carolingian script started to be used. Around this time, raised band binding came into use. 12th century Paper was first brought to Europe. Around this time, Gothic type began to be used. ...

Education of Yuri - The - Moving and uneven

November 26th, 2022

"He had never thought about it but the feeling of not being in the right place, not being the right shape, not being the right anything, had followed him all his life." Midway through The Education of Yuri, Bhavna, the young woman who is about to become Yuri Fonseca’s first girlfriend, tells him that he belongs to a tribe – the tribe of those who don’t belong. She seems to mean it as the bantering kind of put-down. But Yuri isn’t offended. He’s stunned – by the rightness of the cha...

Fomenko’s New Chronology – Ctruth

September 11th, 2022

Fomenko’s New Chronology Links The History: https://ctruth.today/2019/05/26/the-history-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Bibliography: https://ctruth.today/2019/02/03/bibliography-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Examination: https://ctruth.today/2020/10/01/examining-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Horoscopes: https://ctruth.today/2019/01/18/new-chronology-zodiac-list/ Critiques: https://ctruth.today/2020/01/23/arguments-against-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Miscellaneous: https:...

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE

August 14th, 2022

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, No 34 - a Dual-Content Nonideal Cognitive Semantics for Thought-ShapersSourceURL: https://againstprofphil.org/2022/08/14/the-philosophy-of-the-future-34-a-dual-content-nonideal-cognitive-semantics-for-thought-shapers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-philosophy-of-the-future-34-a-dual-content-nonideal-cognitive-semantics-for-thought-shapers "FUTUREWORLD," by A. Lee/Unsplash ...

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Coleman

June 8th, 2022

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Colemanhttps://lithub.com/claire-deniss-stars-at-noon-is-a-cunning-improvement-on-the-source-material/Elusive, elliptical, sinewy, and instinctual. Her films often start after the action’s begun and end before it feels over. They give the impression of being granted temporary access to a raging world, one whose problems can’t be solved, whose social codes can’t be fully ascertained, and whose figures recede e...

Old - the film - M. Night Shyamalan

June 6th, 2022

'Old' Review: M. Night Shyamalan's Latest Is A Wacky, Weird Hot Mess – And Fun, Too By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2021 9:00 am EDT You've got to hand it to M. Night Shyamalan – he's trying, damn it! The movie industry is approaching a precipice. In fact, it might have already gone over the cliff. Wh...

What If The Future Never Happened - Short film

May 31st, 2022

From the mind of Daniel Johns, comes a new semi-autobiographical, but also sci-fi short film, "What If The Future Never Happened?" The Australian musician is most known for his years spent as the former frontman, guitarist, and lead songwriter of the rock band, Silverchair. Johns released his first solo album Talk in 2015, with his second album FutureNever recently released earlier this year. READ MORE: ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Review: Perhaps It’s Too Big A Burden For The Jedi Master To Be Our...

Creating Many Worlds in One for The Wheel of Time

May 31st, 2022

Curated by the IndieWire Crafts team, Craft Considerations is a platform for filmmakers to talk about recent work we believe is worthy of awards consideration. In partnership with Amazon, for this edition we look at how production designer Ondřej Nekvasil created the diverse, expansive environments for the world of "The Wheel of Time." Fantasy worlds are always, sneakily, a little post-apocalyptic. There has usually been some calamity, some clash of kingdoms, or some too-powerful concentr...

Crimes Of The Future Review - David Cronenberg’s Unfinished Business With The Flesh Is Booming

May 24th, 2022

David Cronenberg has unfinished business with the future, which is tricky, seeing as it already constitutes a significant slice of his past. His new film — titled "Crimes of the Future," as in committed by rather than during that span of time — finds the master on the other side of his extended sojourn in high-minded literary adaptation, biopic quasi-prestige, and Tinseltown satire, back to playing the body-horror hits on which he made his name. He’s resumed pondering the permeability of fles...

The Action Scene: "Dabangg" and Projections of Power

May 16th, 2022

The Action Scene: "Dabangg" and Projections of PowerSourceURL: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-action-scene-dabangg-and-projections-of-power"This was just the trailer. The real picture starts now." Thus quips supercop protagonist Chulbul Pandey partway through the opening fight in Dabangg (2010), his eyes just a few degrees removed from looking straight into the camera. His remark requires a slight revision: the rest of the scene, too, fe...

Emily St. John Mandel on the Narrative Possibilities of Time Travel

April 20th, 2022

Canadian-born author Emily St. John Mandel wrote her newest novel, Sea of Tranquility, during the pandemic. In December 2021, as she prepared to launch the book April 5, HBO released the limited series based on her 2014 pandemic novel Station Eleven, drawing raves. "At times dark and heartbreaking, it’s also luminous, wondrous, even funny—the most uplifting show about life after the end of the world that you are likely to see," wrote New York Times film critic James Poniewozik.The novel Stati...

Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing (idea) by anima - Everything2.com

April 12th, 2022

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing (idea) See all of Time, Entropy, and Cognition Are All the Same Thing, no other writeups in this node. (idea) by anima Sat Mar 17 2001 at 2:44:10 Why does time go forward? What's with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and entropy, and all that? Why do I remember the past, and not the future? These are all really the same question. We can think of the "direction" of time as being ...

A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’

September 11th, 2021

‘A Sound of Thunder’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). A time-travel story about how changing the past could bring about momentous and catastrophic changes to the future, ‘A Sound of Thunder’ is often taught and studied in schools and remains a classic of 1950s science fiction. The story was first published in Collier’s magazine in 1952 and then collected a year later in Bradbury’s short-story collection, The Golden Apples of the Sun.You c...

Remembrance of Things to Come: M. Night Shyamalan’s Old

September 7th, 2021

By James Slaymaker. Old reveals itself to be a deeply nuanced, emotionally resonant, structurally experimental and formally rigorous work of art. It’s also a work clearly informed by the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, even though it doesn’t make any explicit references…." This article contains spoilers for M. Night Shyamalan’s Old Fairly late in Old (2021), M. Night Shyamalan’s latest meditation on mortality, paranoia, self-determination, and the inexorable forwa...

The Duality of Time in Eastern and Western Philosophy

September 5th, 2021

Time as Kairos What is time? There are found in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) there at least two meanings given concerning time: ‘what is measured’ and ‘when something happens or should happen.’ The former time is an objective and calculable measure shared by all the members in society, while the latter creates a subjective and unique experience independent of others. When it is said that "customers have only a limited amount of time to examine the goods," time is something m...

The Wrecks of Time (review) by Glowing Fish - Everything2.com

September 2nd, 2021

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Wrecks of Time (review) See all of The Wrecks of Time, no other writeups in this node. (review) by Glowing Fish Sat Aug 28 2021 at 21:22:06 "The Wrecks of Time" is a 1966 novel by Michael Moorcock, published as half of an Ace Double. It was apparently also released in an unedited version, several years later, but I have only read the Ace version. Michael Moorcock is most famous for the Elric saga, a sprawling sword and sorce...

The Second Life of John Frankenheimer's Seconds

August 30th, 2021

Rock Hudson — rock as stoneStone HuddaughterStone Son (penis?)What IF…?What if…? is more than a new Marvel series. It’s the question that underpins so much great science fiction. What if the hierarchies of biological evolution were upended? What if artificial intelligences rebelled? What if humans colonized new worlds or mastered time travel? And what if—in the case of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 brilliant body-horror science-fiction paranoiac thriller Seconds—any of us could have a second shot...