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Who Is Lun*na Menoh - Meta-Documentary Sacrifices Clarity For Self-Referentiality
Beginning with its titular question before falling down the rabbit-hole of meta-textual references, "Who is Lun*na Menoh?" works well as a primer for the Japanese-born conceptual artist, fashion designer, and musician. Adopting a triptych structure—which first establishes a portrait of Menoh before deconstructing the very nature of documentary—Jeff Mizushima’s film is, in the end, more about the nature of filmmaking, and the blurring of reality and fiction, then about the singular artist. Equ...
Go deep inside a Masonic temple with The Armed for a fascinating concert film
It’s a truism that most musicians, when agreeing to be filmed in live performance, hope for nothing more than to capture the electric you-are-there frisson generated from a concert. Yet anyone who’s listened to a recording or seen footage of a show they attended knows that’s an impossible ask—and the best concert films generally try to use the cinematic medium to their advantage, creating something different from but as vital as the difficult-to-replicate sensation of watching a great artist ...
Hit the Road
New York Film Festival 2021 I Am the Cosmos By Demi Kampakis NYFF 2021: Hit the Road Dir. Panah Panahi, Iran, Kino Lorber A family of four embarks on a road trip. In the car are Mom and Dad and their two sons: one very rambunctious six-year-old and the youngster’s big brother, a bespectacled and noticeably pensive young man. Mom seems occupied with pressing thoughts while Dad, a scruffy and heavy-lidded bear with curmudgeonly charm, snoozes in the back. Riding in the trunk is Je...
Tafsir Talk 1: The Nature Of The Quran and Its Levels of Tafsir | Perspectives Of A Fellow Traveler
Tafsir Talk 1: The Nature Of The Quran and Its Levels of Tafsir 1 Reply It is said that if you want to talk to God, then you should pray, but if you want God to talk to you then you should read the Quran. As Muslims we believe that the Quran is the verbatim speech of God. With that being the case, it only makes sense that if we want a message from God, that one should turn to the Quran. If the Quran is God’s speech then how should we interpret what He is say...
Act of Smelling- The - Camphor and Petrichor
p. 49Source: And on p. 34 , the essay on Petrichor, or "blood-stone"
Isabella Hermann, Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors - PhilPapers
Artificial intelligence in fiction: between narratives and metaphors Isabella Hermann AI and Society:1-11 (forthcoming) Abstract Science-fiction has become a reference point in the discourse on the ethics and risks surrounding artificial intelligence. Thus, AI in SF—science-fictional AI—is considered part of a larger corpus of ‘AI narratives’ that are analysed as shaping the fears and hopes of the technology. SF, however, is not a foresight or technology assessment, but tell...
TLS on TLS in Literature - hyperreflexivity perhaps
The article mentions several examples of the times literary supplement being included in stories that are published and perhaps later reviewed by the times literary supplement itself -zas
Karl Ove Knausgaard
With his new novel "The Morning Star," Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard takes a marked shift away from the autofiction which made him a literary superstar, and propelled the six volumes of his autobiographical novel "My Struggle" onto bestseller lists around the world. The new novel is limited to two days in late summer, incorporates speculative and horror elements, and is written from a number of points of view. This is still very much a Knausgaard novel, though, which is welcome ne...
Carson McCullers
Early Life A renowned American Novelist, playwright, and essayist, Carson McCullers, was born on the 19th of February in 1917 in Georgia, the United States. She was a precocious daughter of Lamar Smith, a jeweler by profession, while her mother, Marguerite Waters, was a homemaker. Carson shared the aesthetic and unique creative abilities of her parents from a very young age; she took piano lessons when she was five. Later, after recognizing her unique writing abilities, her father gifted C...
Sunday Reading: Adaptations
In 1998, the novelist Michael Cunningham published a short story in The New Yorker about a woman living in postwar Los Angeles who feels dissatisfied with her incomplete marriage. On the day of her husband’s birthday, she peruses Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and starts reflecting on the trajectory of her own life. "A Room at the Normandy" is an excerpt from Cunningham’s novel "The Hours," which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was adapted into an Oscar-winning film, in 20...
Minium and cinnabar
Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Minium (definition) See all of Minium, no other writeups in this node. (definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:12:14 Min"i*um [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armine�xa0;.] Chem. A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, a...
Mimolette Tasting Notes | Gourmet Cheese of the Month Club
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Reflexive Space -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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Banach Space -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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Fucking with Nobody – A meta movie which completely loses itself in its meta-ness
Share this Article Fucking with Nobody is a movie within a movie within a movie within a movie. I think I got the Russian doll right. Even if I haven’t, I don’t think the movie has it down either. Fucking with Nobody, directed by and starring Hannaleena Hauru, starts off as something relatively tame. After losing out on directing a feminist horror movie to her male colleague Kristian (who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend and is currently in a relationship with the scree...
A Summary and Analysis of Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’
‘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...
The Whale Who Will Come Soon - Issue 105: Whale Songs
The beachfront narrows to an ocherous ribbon, belted by blue, above and below. After a while, a handful of shearwaters appear in the air above the Cat Balou. The birds flash around us; like knife-thrower tricks at a circus. Diving through the water, each is crowned in a diadem of bubbles. The shearwaters come from Antarctica, like the humpbacks, and also Siberia, South America, and Japan; they arrive in Australia, where they often die in large numbers from exhaustion. Such bird deaths, en mas...
The real scandal of Dante’s Beatrice
https://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/_/oupblog/~https://blog.oup.com/2021/09/the-real-scandal-of-dantes-beatrice/2021 sees the 700th anniversary of the death of poet Dante Alighieri. To mark this, we asked authors of some of our new publishing on Dante to write for the OUPblog.For over 700 years, Dante’s description of his first encounter with Beatrice has scandalized readers. Medieval commentators debate Dante’s possible blasphemy in glorifying a mortal woman. Counter-reformation editors censor...