If only we could forget all boredom, resentment, shortcomings or at least the idea that we have them… If only we could… perhaps we would be happy. Happy, just as a baby who ignores all sense of the past, is “happy”. Memory has a dark side so perhaps it would be a good thing to be able to select useful memories and get rid of bad ones. Not even for personal gain only but for the benefit of society. Hate involves memory… (Hence Nietzsche’s quote.). Boredom involves memory: it is always great to see things anew. And so the question arises: what are we without the whole of our memories?
“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” develops around the role of memory, relationships and the ethics of memory and freedom. The movie is an attention-catcher and I think very well scripted. The ending suggests that in relationships there is no solution but to accept from the outset that we simply cannot help but get bored and think of “things” and feel trapped. While I was watching the movie I thought we have the technology for temporary “lacuna”: alcohol. It is interesting that in Spanish “la cuna” means “the cradle”.
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e movie raises many more questions: can we take someone’s memories and be that someone? How does language actually not help us feel and know ourselves completely? Can we know ourselves completely?
What do you think of this movie?
Categories: movies
Math, Philosophy, Comics and Bertrand Russell’s Search for Truth
| Written by Calvin Reid, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY COMICS WEEK |
| April 14,2009 |
| While it’s not unusual for comics to take on any subject, a new book coming from Bloomsbury in the fall will up the ante for using the comics medium to present a serious and complex subject in a thoughtful and entertaining literary package. In October Bloomsbury will publish Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with the art team of Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna, simultaneously in the U.S. and Britain as their lead book for the fall 2009 season. Featured on the cover of the Bloomsbury catalog, the book is a work of serious nonfiction that, among other things, is a biography of the noted mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell. But that’s just the beginning of the story of this unusual and impressive work. |
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Categories: philosophy
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A short autobiography
Sextus tries to answer this question through the telling of a life journey.
I do not remember exactly how old I was, perhaps 8 or 9, when I discover a very cool game. It happened one day while I was in a bathroom with no mirrors. (more…)
Categories: brain/mind · philosophy
Two beautiful choreographies open and close “Talk to Her.” In “Café Muller” two women in nightgowns are moving trough the furniture that acts as obstacle. Although a man desperately moves the chairs and tables to clear up the way, the women end up bumping into walls and then they collapse. In “Mazurca Fogo” men are trying desperately to hear the voice or song of a woman. They chase her, holding a microphone; they move and twist her body, but all is heard is her breathing. The stories of Benigno and Marco are framed within these dances which highlight the mystery of connection, communication and love. (more…)
Categories: art · movies
e movie raises many more questions: can we take someone’s memories and be that someone? How does language actually not help us feel and know ourselves completely? Can we know ourselves completely?
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