Month: May 2011
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Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject, by Christina Howells
Sartre and Derrida: The Promises of the Subject Chaque fois unique, la fin du monde by Christina Howells Christina Howells is Professor of French at Wadham College, Oxford University. She has published books on Sartre, on Derrida, and on French women philosophers. She teaches literary theory, French literature, and recent French thought. Professor Howell’s new…
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Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 2
The traveler had long arduous journeys behind him. Ahead was an easy walk to paradise. Something akin to a time tunnel had been constructed, rendering all our adventures completely safe. Fences are not for separating. They are for connecting. Solitary and solidary.
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From Las Vegas (NV) to the Cactus League (AZ)
Leaving Las Vegas… Driving through the northern Arizona desert… To the Cactus League… In the Shadow of Jean Baudrillard and America… Midnight at the oasis Send your camel to bed Shadows paintin’ our faces Traces of romance in our heads Heaven’s holdin’ a half-moon Shinin’ just for us Let’s slip off to a sand dune,…
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Lost: The Crash Out of Globalization and Into the World
The Pilot Episode of Lost: Phenomenological Narratives We Are ‘Lost Together’ The television show Lost premiered on September 22, 2004. En route from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California, USA, Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashes on an unknown Island in the South Pacific. This flight that was supposed to circumscribe half of the globe already…