Tag Archives: Stanley Kubrick

theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Dave

Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading →

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Chess a genteel game? … full-contact body and mind

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Dave

Not all chess matches have had a happy, sportsmanlike end.Does chess encourage violence or discourage it? It may not be a leisure activity of refinement and erudition that many outsiders hold the image of it to be. In fact the … Continue reading →

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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading →

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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Dave

First of all, should we begin by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading →

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AUTUMN OF IMPERIAL VIENNA: Illusions Haunted by the Shadow of Death

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

When Adolf Hitler left provincial Linz in late adolescence there was only one place to go: Habsburg Vienna, the great imperial city, home to a veritable Babylon of peoples, the ineffable seat of an ancient empire. But the crowded streets … Continue reading →

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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading →

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GOOD FENCES MAKE BAD NEIGHBORS: Mending The Fury

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Dave

Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” is about the fences that divide us, both externally and internally.Property and territoriality being a metaphor for that toxic blend of materialism and inner turmoil.Jean Renoir’s 1937 classic La Grande Illusion was also about … Continue reading →

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PATRIOTIC ROMANCE & WAR DANCE: The Illusion It Was All Worthwhile

Posted on September 19, 2010 by Dave

There’s an epidemic Stirring passions in young hearts Even the old campaigners Have got it really bad Well we ain’t seen nothing like it Since coronation day But when the street parties sound I’m going underground To keep the rabid … Continue reading →

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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Dave

Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading →

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TURN ON, TUNE IN, AND DROP OUT?

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dave

According to the “knowability thesis,” every truth is knowable.Frederic Fitch’s paradox refutes the knowability thesis by showing that if we are not omniscient, then not only are some truths not known, but there are some truths that are not knowable. The … Continue reading →