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    The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album

    The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album

    To mark this month’s fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ ninth album, “The Beatles”—universally known as the White Album—several new expanded and enhanced editions are being released this week. These new…

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    About Led Zeppelin

    About Led Zeppelin

    What the Beatles were to the ’60s, Led Zeppelin were to the ’70s: a band so successful and innovative they wound up creating the prism through which their…

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    Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’

    Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Electric Ladyland’

    “We’ve been doing new tracks that are really fantastic and we’ve just been getting into them,” Jimi Hendrix told Rolling Stone in February 1968, right after he and the Experience had played…

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    Movies

    10 Movie Directors Who Made More Than 5 Masterpieces

    10 Movie Directors Who Made More Than 5 Masterpieces

    When the writers (and future film makers) of the influential French film journal Cahiers du…

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    “North by Northwest” – Hitchcock’s most entertaining film

    “North by Northwest” – Hitchcock’s most entertaining film

    In my childhood, one of the movies that made me fall in love with movies…

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    Most Tragic Movies of All Time

    Most Tragic Movies of All Time

    Tragedy for the purposes of this list does not mean films that are very sad.…

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    A Movie Lover’s Guide To The Films Of Ingmar Bergman

    A Movie Lover’s Guide To The Films Of Ingmar Bergman

    I’m beginning to think that the late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman gets a bad rap.…

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    The 10 Best Erotic Movies of All Time

    The 10 Best Erotic Movies of All Time

    It is in the interest of any aspiring filmmaker to strive for originality in storytelling,…

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    Mind and Cognition

    The Hellfire club

    The Hellfire club

    Majority of secret societies are exclusive, intended for a small circle of the chosen ones. Their closeness is the very reason for making them an ideal ground for…

    13. October 2014.Comments Off on The Hellfire clubRead More

    Underground utopism

    Underground utopism

    It seems to me that, for a long time, we were searching for that particular social order that will guarantee equal rights for all, flawless community development and…

    13. October 2014.Comments Off on Underground utopismRead More

    Time: illusion and/or necessity?

    Time: illusion and/or necessity?

    For a majority of us, time is but an alternate term for what occurs between two random points on the clock. But, here is the gist: clocks –…

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    Modern European Mysticism

    Modern European Mysticism

    This article will introduce you to the complex world of modern European mysticism through studying its psychological thought. We shall see that modern European mysticism has its own…

    13. October 2014.Comments Off on Modern European MysticismRead More

    Zero the hero: How nothing became everything

    Zero the hero: How nothing became everything

    It may not seem all that intuitive that numbers and numerical systems could be susceptible to the same kind of transformation as any other cultural phenomena. When one…

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    Sociology

    How to Die

    How to Die

    One morning in may, the existential psychotherapist Irvin Yalom was recuperating in a sunny room on the first floor of a Palo…

    23. September 2017.Comments Off on How to DieRead More

    Richard Dawkins interview: ‘It must be possible to construct life chemically, or in a computer’

    Richard Dawkins interview: ‘It must be possible to construct life chemically, or in a computer’

    Britain’s most famous atheist is surprisingly low-key. The public Richard Dawkins – combative, outspoken, relentless – is, it turns out, a…

    20. October 2015.Comments Off on Richard Dawkins interview: ‘It must be possible to construct life chemically, or in a computer’Read More

    Slavoj Žižek: Thanks to the EU’s villainy, Greece is now under financial occupation

    Slavoj Žižek: Thanks to the EU’s villainy, Greece is now under financial occupation

    A response to some of my critics. When my short essay on Greece after the referendum“The Courage of Hopelessness” was republished…

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    A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky’s Theory of Time-Pressure

    A Deleuzian Analysis of Tarkovsky’s Theory of Time-Pressure

    The purpose of this essay is to offer a…

    The 30 Most Influential Movies In Cinema History

    The 30 Most Influential Movies In Cinema History

    These days, many people, particularly cinephiles, or simply just…

    Top 10 Filmmakers Who Redefined Modern Cinema

    Top 10 Filmmakers Who Redefined Modern Cinema

    David W. Griffith was the pioneering director who invented…

    Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth”

    Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth”

    Yesterday we ran a list of 93 films beloved…

    The Poetic Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky

    The Poetic Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky

    “It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything,…

    Connection between Different Realities through Video Screens

    Connection between Different Realities through Video Screens

    Analysis of the “Berton’s Report” film sequence from “Solaris”…

    Temporal Defamiliarization and Mise-en-Scène in Tarkovsky’s Stalker

    Temporal Defamiliarization and Mise-en-Scène in Tarkovsky’s Stalker

    Introduction In her article “The Concept of Cinematic Excess,”…

    Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life

    Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life

    The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset has referred…

    Beatles’ Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to ‘Revolver’

    Beatles’ Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to ‘Revolver’

    Psychedelic drug inspired their masterpiece – but also opened…

    The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney

    The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney

    He’s as famous and accomplished as a man can…

    The Beatles: 1967–1970

    The Beatles: 1967–1970

    Even if you’re a newcomer to The Beatles’ legacy,…

    The Power of Two

    The Power of Two

    In the fall of 1966, during a stretch of…

    A short story about killing

    A short story about killing

    I decided to kill. Perhaps it is better say…

    Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible

    Isaac Asimov’s Guide to the Bible

    A Witty, Erudite Atheist’s Guide to the World’s Most…

    Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses

    Henri Matisse Illustrates James Joyce’s Ulysses

    Last year, fans of modernist Irish literature and impressionist…

    An introduction to Ulysses

    An introduction to Ulysses

    Since its publication in 1922, readers have been daunted,…

    The Kailasa Temple: the world’s largest monolithic structure carved from one piece of rock

    The Kailasa Temple: the world’s largest monolithic structure carved from one piece of rock

    We see ancient edifices around the globe, like thе…

    How Jeremy Irons Rescued and Restored a 15th-Century Irish Castle

    How Jeremy Irons Rescued and Restored a 15th-Century Irish Castle

    Somewhere between Ballydehob and Skibbereen, the G.P.S. directed me…

    An Ethereal Forest Where Japanese Commit Suicide

    An Ethereal Forest Where Japanese Commit Suicide

    Photographer Tomasz Lazar asks us to envision the final…

    Photos Taken from Space to Make You Realize Just How Tiny We Are

    Photos Taken from Space to Make You Realize Just How Tiny We Are

    It all started with an educational video. Benjamin Grant…

    The 10 Best Structured Movies of All Time

    The 10 Best Structured Movies of All Time

    It’s amazing to think of the vast methods one…

    Stanley Kubrick interview with Playboy magazine, 1968

    Stanley Kubrick interview with Playboy magazine, 1968

    Playboy: Much of the controversy surrounding 2001 deals with…

    10 Reasons Why “2001: A Space Odyssey” Is The Greatest Sci-fi Movie of All Time

    10 Reasons Why “2001: A Space Odyssey” Is The Greatest Sci-fi Movie of All Time

    Next year will be the 50th Anniversary of one…

    Greatest Mythologies of Stanley Kubrick

    Greatest Mythologies of Stanley Kubrick

    Let’s try to set the record straight. More has…

    The Nature of conflict

    Nature of conflict

    Nature of conflict

    There are several reasons why most people do not approach conflicts in the right way. The basic one is – they see the conflict as a problem,…

    13. October 2014.Comments Off on Nature of conflict

    Philosophy

    The Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein

    The Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Philosophers have often ruminated on the aesthetics of photography. Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida begins with a poignant memorialization of his mother, as remembered through her photograph. Pierre…

    15. March 2018.Comments Off on The Photography of Ludwig Wittgenstein

    Mythology

    Le Mal du Grand Frère

    Le Mal du Grand Frère

    (Extrait de “L’Horizon de Neith”) Le nom rayé de l’identité archiancienne de la Mère des temps immémoriaux est la topographie du mal qui ne s’est pas encore…

    9. July 2019.Comments Off on Le Mal du Grand Frère

    Archaeology

    The Pyramid of Pachacamac

    The Pyramid of Pachacamac

    The Pyramids of Pachacamac; an ancient Masterpiece of construction. Pachacamac is a Pre-Inca archaeological site located roughly 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru. Archaeologists have discovered over 15…

    24. January 2017.Comments Off on The Pyramid of Pachacamac

    Architecture

    The Pantheon (Rome)

    The Pantheon (Rome)

    The eighth wonder of the ancient world The Pantheon in Rome is a true architectural wonder. Described as the “sphinx of the Campus Martius”—referring to enigmas presented…

    21. April 2019.Comments Off on The Pantheon (Rome)

    Culture

    The Culture of sustainable development: the interaction of universal and national values

    The Culture of sustainable development: the interaction of universal and national values

    Global vs. local identities: The role of media in process of sustainable cultural development In an era of market and media globalization, the concept of national identity…

    26. October 2014.Comments Off on The Culture of sustainable development: the interaction of universal and national values

    Religion

    The Taoist View of the Universe – Alan Watts

    The Taoist View of the Universe – Alan Watts

    “Taoists view the universe as the same as, or inseparable from, themselves so that Lao-tzu could say, “Without leaving my house, I know the whole universe.” This implies…

    10. March 2016.Comments Off on The Taoist View of the Universe – Alan Watts

    Art

    The endless influence of the Bauhaus

    The endless influence of the Bauhaus

    Here in Berlin, Germany’s Bauhaus Archiv is throwing a farewell party. Next year this museum will close for renovation, and until then it’s presenting a display of…

    18. November 2017.Comments Off on The endless influence of the Bauhaus

    Unknown pleasures

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