I have never actually seen The Shining but I have watched the documentary Room 237 which explores the different subtexts of the film many times. The ability to have an insight into something is then more important than actually seeing the work itself. Here I mean seeing the work itself in a Heideggerian sense. Not […]
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
There is a danger in wishing to have understood everything during the process of writing a dissertation. I have spent the last year working on a 90 page Masters by Research dissertation about how Heidegger can alter the way we view graffiti and street art within the context of the city. I submitted it three […]
Or was not at least an enthusiastic one for very long… While he was a member of the party Heidegger was not an avid Nazi. A lot of the discussion focused on his work are about his connections to National Socialism, as well as the political rhetoric of that time as well as his anti-Semitic […]
There is something in the idea of the library that is pure fetishization. It is seen almost as a well from which all the monumental ideas of the world have ever arisen. The feeling, the smell, of the books. We see the library as the bearer of ideas. Perhaps a library is and should be […]
Today I have put together what I am going to do throughout the month of August. A plan of how I am going to overcome a lack of self-control. While I have been quite routine about what I have been doing over the last two years I think my self-control could definitely be improved. There […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
Last week I explored the idea of the victim and the victimiser in relation to the short film La Vita Nuova by Christine and the Queens. I mentioned at the end of that post that there may be a link between love and scapegoating. This for me is linked to victimisation and victimisers, scapegoating is […]
Last week I explored Christine and the Queens short film La Vita Nuova that was released in conjunction with an EP of the same name. I did so in relation to high fashion and the ability of high fashion to evoke fantasy, an ability which Mark Fisher argued had been lost by high art which […]
In a recent video posted on Instagram Florence Pugh said a number of things that stuck me as odd. These are things that are necessarily specific to her rather they stood out as being symptomatic of something wider. It is symptomatic of the effect of Instagram and social media more generally on our relationship to […]
Come Back To Earth 