Archive for January, 2008
/1/ – On education Jacques Ranciere’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster is a text that has been throughly dissected for its pedagogical uses. In the book Ranciere documents the intellectual adventures of Joseph Jacotot, a man who in the 18th and 19th centuries, struggled to further his views of intellectual emancipation. Jacotot, who due to the dominating […]
Filed under: Badiou, Kant, Ranciere, television, Zizek | 2 Comments
Migrations of Trauma
/1/ – The Uncanny road to trauma… The translation of the word unheimlich, literally ‘unhomeness’, is uncanny – a philosophical and psychological category all too familiar thanks to the work of Sigmund Freud. Yet, the original German term has a primarily spatial orientation – it is a feeling of not being where one feels like […]
Filed under: film, Freud, politics, psychoanalysis, Ranciere, trauma, Zizek | 1 Comment
The End of Music’s Difference
/1/ – Sounds across the stage Over time the sound track has wormed its way deeper into the medium of cinema. Is it possible that this kind of narratological infection is parallel to the increasing reflexivity of music itself? Sound was first introduced to film at the turn of the century but was not a […]
Filed under: film, music, Zizek | 3 Comments
Naught Thought 