I have recently read a number of plays by the British play write Tom Stoppard. If I am honest I had not heard of him or his work until watching the BBC Imagine… documentary about his work and life. His work is funny and absurd in many ways. My focus on Heidegger’s philosophy led me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Death is an odd phenomenon. It is so far removed from anything we can experience and ever really feel that it can only ever leave a void. There can be no understanding of it, and I think that any form of understanding would be detrimental. If we knew the feeling, we would never live because […]
Come Back To Earth 