Category Archives: Literature and Cinema
The Island: Waiting for a day that will never come
The Island is a science-fiction movie directed by Michael Bay. Our hero, Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) wakes up from a nightmare in which he sees himself drowning. What we, the spectators don’t know yet is that Lincoln has actually woken
The Island: Waiting for a day that will never come
The Island is a science-fiction movie directed by Michael Bay. Our hero, Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) wakes up from a nightmare in which he sees himself drowning. What we, the spectators don’t know yet is that Lincoln has actually woken
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Deleuze and the Theatre of Samuel Beckett
Principal Supervisor: Laura Cull As Beckett scholar, Mary Bryden has noted, Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical engagement with Samuel Beckett’s work is particularly focused on his early novels and latterly with his television projects, rather than on the stage plays for which
PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Deleuze and the Theatre of Samuel Beckett
Principal Supervisor: Laura Cull As Beckett scholar, Mary Bryden has noted, Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical engagement with Samuel Beckett’s work is particularly focused on his early novels and latterly with his television projects, rather than on the stage plays for which
Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture
Call for Papers Edited by Richard Rushton and Philip Roberts What is schizoanalysis and how might it be applied to the analysis of contemporary visual culture? This question is both daunting in its complexity and exciting in terms of the
Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture
Call for Papers Edited by Richard Rushton and Philip Roberts What is schizoanalysis and how might it be applied to the analysis of contemporary visual culture? This question is both daunting in its complexity and exciting in terms of the
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (3) – From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis
From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis With Deleuze the Cartesian mind-body dualism has been replaced by body-language dualism. Without being too insistent about it at this stage I would like to hint at where the relationship between these dualisms is heading.
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (3) – From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis
From Metaphor and Towards Metamorphosis With Deleuze the Cartesian mind-body dualism has been replaced by body-language dualism. Without being too insistent about it at this stage I would like to hint at where the relationship between these dualisms is heading.
Slavoj Zizek – Love Beyond Law
“Love beyond Law” involves a “feminine” sublimation of drives into love…[love] is here no longer merely a narcissistic (mis)recognition to be opposed to desire as the subject’s ‘truth’ but a unique case of direct asexual sublimation (integration into the order
Slavoj Zizek – Love Beyond Law
“Love beyond Law” involves a “feminine” sublimation of drives into love…[love] is here no longer merely a narcissistic (mis)recognition to be opposed to desire as the subject’s ‘truth’ but a unique case of direct asexual sublimation (integration into the order
(‘ ,)Durağan Dünyanın Son Sahnesi(‘ ,)
Hayatı kilitlenmiş bir adamın kendini içinde bulduğu ruhsal ve fiziksel durumlara karşı giriştiği amansız mücadeleyi anlatan ve Türkçe’ye Durağan Dünya diye çevirebileceğimiz Wereld Van Stilstand filmi Hollanda’lı yönetmen Elbert Van Strien’in yazıp yönettiği 2002 yapımı oldukça deneysel 30 dakikalık bir
(‘ ,)Durağan Dünyanın Son Sahnesi(‘ ,)
Hayatı kilitlenmiş bir adamın kendini içinde bulduğu ruhsal ve fiziksel durumlara karşı giriştiği amansız mücadeleyi anlatan ve Türkçe’ye Durağan Dünya diye çevirebileceğimiz Wereld Van Stilstand filmi Hollanda’lı yönetmen Elbert Van Strien’in yazıp yönettiği 2002 yapımı oldukça deneysel 30 dakikalık bir
Cengiz Erdem
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