December 2006
6 posts
Arrested Development; arrested development
The mock epiphanies\relationship-breakthroughs in Arrested Development. Not ironic or false per-se, just immediately hit with a counterpoint demonstrating their epiphenomenal nature. But for the 10 seconds they last, they’re genuine both psychologically and aesthetically. It’s an explication — or a turning of the symptomatic into the rhetorical , if you will — of the...
Arrested Development; arrested development
The mock epiphanies\relationship-breakthroughs in Arrested Development. Not ironic or false per-se, just immediately hit with a counterpoint demonstrating their epiphenomenal nature. But for the 10 seconds they last, they’re genuine both psychologically and aesthetically. It’s an explication — or a turning of the symptomatic into the rhetorical , if you will — of the...
More Amateur Philosophy
A misinterpretation of Wittgensteinian practice : Treating the description of grammar as the source for philosophical insight, rather than as the form of philosophical insight. This is not as trivial as it sounds ,because it manifests itself in treating the grammar as a guide for reinstating new pictures to replace the old ones, e. g. from a description of the (behavioral, obviously)...
More Amateur Philosophy
A misinterpretation of Wittgensteinian practice : Treating the description of grammar as the source for philosophical insight, rather than as the form of philosophical insight. This is not as trivial as it sounds ,because it manifests itself in treating the grammar as a guide for reinstating new pictures to replace the old ones, e. g. from a description of the (behavioral, obviously)...
Guy Maddin: Best Filmmaker Alive ?
Watched Cowards Bend At The Knee. If there’s a genre out there that’s more fun than the mock-freudian-mock-surrealist-thriller-farce [a surprisingly large genre, really] I haven’t seen it.
Guy Maddin: Best Filmmaker Alive ?
Watched Cowards Bend At The Knee. If there’s a genre out there that’s more fun than the mock-freudian-mock-surrealist-thriller-farce [a surprisingly large genre, really] I haven’t seen it.