Today I was listening to a talk by Zizek relayed on youtube. In it he spends time, as ever, trying to describe the big other. He uses Freud’s idea of the drive and in the case of sight he notes that Freud considers drive to be reflexive, mentioning the French reflexive form of the verb …
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muppets the film
This is a film that starts with emotional retardation at it’s heart, a lack of passion, indeed it’s impossibility. The hero, Walter is an introvert as well as being a muppet who discovers his muppetness in the film and, of course, his happiness at the same time.
immortal(s)
Worth watching sister dear. The film is most remarkable by being in the genre of classic Hollywood epics. It has a feel of the fifties and sixties. Otherwise what I noticed was the coherence in what is deemed acceptable by censors. Heads cut off and varied scenes of a gory nature are allowed but any …
journey 2: the mysterious island
The idea is that film as a medium, as a form, emerged with women always already objectified ;by the format, the simple act of framing and representing any figure, of giving, however temporary, a fixed form ;by its practitioners, practically exclusively men, women further objectified in particular form. The latter held as achieving a patriarchal, …
machete
My good friend Steve P got hold of this film. It tells the story of Machete, the eponymous hero who, wielding said machete saves the day numerous times while bringing justice to bear against a set of corrupt politicians, police and drug barons all involved in a plan to use anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican sentiment to further …
adverts and integration
A few comments on the adverts which ran during Make Bradford British and how they both show the context in which we operate and operate to dilute the message of the programme.
bradford, the british and the camera
Make Bradford British is well worth watching. Initially I was very suspicious of it, imagining that it would develop into a form of Bradford Big Brother, be another reality TV show and no more. However it develops into a fascinating and at times shocking programme that offers us a raw insight into the problems, bigotry …
a dangerous method
The film A Dangerous Method relates the story of Jung’s development of psychoanalytical theory and his meeting with Freud focusing on Sabina Spielrein, a young woman who finds sexual pleasure in physical punishment. Jung is drawn to her and they become lovers and at one point, finally acceding to the fulfillment of her desire, he …
a village i once visited…
The setting From the eastern Mediterranean coast the territory covered by the department of the Aude reaches inland for about 80km, initially across a broad plain of arid land which rises steeply to the south into the Pyrenees and to the north the Black Mountains.