Tag: Philosophy

Submersion Doesn’t Come Easily: How the musical score in "Inception" is a lesson in collective dreaming. (As well as an ode to Hitchcock’s "Vertigo.")

August 4, 2010

Today’s post is by Amy Herzog, associate professor of media studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She is author of Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film. ——- In a sequence from Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010), we are introduced to the mechanics of shared dreaming alongside … More Submersion Doesn’t Come Easily: How the musical score in "Inception" is a lesson in collective dreaming. (As well as an ode to Hitchcock’s "Vertigo.")

In The New Yorker — this image look familiar?

July 23, 2010

The New Yorker’s Frames from Fiction blog this week features a brief slideshow on the publication’s research of recent work in photography in relation to Karen Russell’s fiction story, “The Dredgeman’s Revelation.” Of the 8 photos featured and discussed, one—the second—is the photo that appears on the cover of What Is Posthumanism? by Cary Wolfe, … More In The New Yorker — this image look familiar?

Deleuze on dogs (hates ’em) and bugs (loves ’em)

June 24, 2010

From today’s Slog: The Slog then links to this piece by Charles Stivale that discusses Deleuze’s dislike of domestic animals and his unique fascination with ticks, spiders and fleas. Because it is a somewhat rare occasion when a mainstream blog quotes Deleuze, we thought we would take the opportunity to mention a forthcoming title in … More Deleuze on dogs (hates ’em) and bugs (loves ’em)

Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus a top-five pick

March 26, 2010

Human rights lawyer Chibli Mallat (best known for legal actions on behalf of the victims of Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein) has chosen one of our dearest and all-time most popular books as one of the top five books in “maverick political thought”: A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. (Er, Mille Plateaux, as … More Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus a top-five pick

Cary Wolfe: What Is Posthumanism?

March 24, 2010

Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of What Is Posthumanism? (2009), the 8th installment in UMP’s Posthumanities Series. His previous books include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” and Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, and … More Cary Wolfe: What Is Posthumanism?

Author Q&A: On Gilles Deleuze, philosophical tools, and "Political Affect"

November 25, 2009

John Protevi, a professor of French studies at Louisiana State University, is author of Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic, which is the 7th installment in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series. In this book, Protevi applies his concept of political affect to show how unconscious emotional valuing shaped three events: the … More Author Q&A: On Gilles Deleuze, philosophical tools, and "Political Affect"