From the Pink Mosque, Shiraz, Iran.
%wails arms around belligerently*is a raging friendzoned manchild*
Gilles Deleuze on Cinema - What is the Creative Act? (1987)
This 45 minute talk at a conference in 1987 on the “act of creation” in cinema is perhaps the most intimate capture of Gilles Deleuze on film besides the Abécédaire interview. Gilles Deleuze speaks continuously and fluidly in a raspy but gentle and sincere voice that betrays much reverence for the work of figures such as Bresson and Kurosawa, particularly as concerns what Deleuze claims to be an absolute need of theirs to adapt the works of Shakespeare and Dostoevsky for film. Other figures discussed include Syberberg, Straub and Duras, along with a discussion of Foucault and disciplinary societies. Deleuze concludes with a meditation on what he calls the “mysterious connection between the work of art and the act of resistance.”
Good morning
how is this man a public intellectual
like really though, he’s like one of the closest things we have to a public intellectual we live in a broken world
good lord
OK but Verso really won all the prizes.
Everytime my parents tell me an accomplishment by someone in our diaspora I basically hear Jay-Z saying …
“Not bad, huh? for some immigrants”
Time uses a picture of a young woman taking a selfie to demonstrate how fucked up our generation is
Why not use a picture of a 50 year old white male banker masturbating with mortgage papers into the mouth of a senator
(via aloofshahbanou)
Murder + [Metonymy] μετωνυμία
Description: Murder and Metonymy, from the Greek 'Metonymia' "a change of name". The antidote to the malaise of semiotically confusing times.
Author: An exiled Post-wikipedia/post-blog pseudo-intellectual living in Los Angeles (like actually the city of Los Angeles)
Posts on: Aesthetics of suffering, violence, loss and bodily harm; Modern Iran and Persian literature, Modern European Intellectual history, 19th- 20th century philosophy and literature and its reception in the non Euro-Atlantic, Pomegranates, Orientalism(s), Occidentalism(s), Expatriate/diasporic avant-garde(s), Frankfurt School, Marx and Romanticism; Decadence, Symbolism and Fin-de-Siecle culture; exile and displacement ... and other garbage topoi.