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Tentacles Are Hair You Wear On Your Spleen, Ideally

“You might define the general trend in my work as a synthesis of aesthetics and psychology. Traditionally, in Japan, these are not two different things. Neither is aesthetics in conflict with realism. I believe this is unique to Japan.” – Yukio Mishima

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Film & Web Hype / 20 Comments
July 6th, 2010 / 4:00 pm

Literary Doppelgangers: Quartet

MICHEL FOUCAULT & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

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Michel Foucault tells us of The Order of Things, which is pretty simple: Back to the Future, Back to the Future II, and Back to the Future III. Jeez, that was easy.  Call me a philistine, but I’ll pick those movies any day over freakin’ semiotics. Up until this post, I thought that photo of Lloyd was a Ron Mueck sculpture. In the age of mimesis, everything is suspect.

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Author Spotlight / 18 Comments
May 6th, 2009 / 7:09 pm