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Showing posts with label objects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label objects. Show all posts
30 Oct 2022

Call It: Thoughts on the Coin Toss Scene in No Country for Old Men

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Anton Chigurh teaches a philosophical point to an elderly man  who owns a gas station in No Country for Old Men (2007)     I.    I'm no...
1 Jun 2022

Notes on Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things' (Part 1)

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  Polity Press (2022) [a]     I.    Once upon a time, to value material objects - or things - was seen as some kind of moral failure; a sig...
27 Feb 2022

Notes on an Essay by Stéphane Sitayeb: 'Sexualized Objects in D. H. Lawrence’s Short Fiction: Eros and Thanatos'

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Fragment of stained glass (19th century) 7.2 x 3.2 cm (whole object)  Royal Collection Trust     I.    Stéphane Sitayeb's essay on sexua...
28 Aug 2019

On the Quickness and Allure of Objects

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Phoebe Stadler: Saucy (c. 1920) collections.vam.ac.uk Was ist Schnelligkeit? asks Heide. And it's an interesting question. ...
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10 Mar 2018

Graham Harman: The Third Table (Synopsis and Critique)

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Picasso: La Table (1919) I. Synopsis The Third Table (2012) is a fascinating short piece by the object-oriented philosopher ...
17 Jul 2017

Technosexual Futures with Reference to the Case of Tanya (RealDoll 2 Configuration 1)

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Tanya: a second generation RealDoll For her full details click here .  Technosexuality refers to a rapidly evolving phenomenon ...
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26 Nov 2016

Nothing Important Happened Today (On Revolutionary Events)

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King George III (1738-1820) One of my favourite stories concerns George III who, on July 4, 1776, wrote in his diary with regal ind...
7 Feb 2015

Just Saying Something on Subjects and Objects

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  Cambridge Professor of Philosophy, Rae Langton, makes it very clear why she values people over objects. For whilst conceding that the...