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    10 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time

    10 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time

    For close to a half century, prog has been the breeding ground for rock’s most out-there, outsized and outlandish ideas: Thick-as-a-brick concept albums, an early embrace of synthesizers, overly…

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    Walter Becker, Steely Dan Co-Founder, Dead at 67

    Walter Becker, Steely Dan Co-Founder, Dead at 67

    \Walter Becker, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67. Becker’s official site announced the death; no…

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    The Persistence of Prog Rock

    The Persistence of Prog Rock

    In April, 1971, Rolling Stone reviewed the début album by a band with a name better suited to a law firm: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The reviewer liked what he…

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    Movies

    Alan Parker’s ‘Angel Heart’ Is Astonishing as Hell

    Alan Parker’s ‘Angel Heart’ Is Astonishing as Hell

    English film director Alan Parker was first introduced to William Hjortsberg’s novel ‘Falling Angel’ almost immediately after…

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    ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: A Tense, Nightmarish Exploration of Marriage and Sexuality in Kubrick’s Ultimate Film

    ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: A Tense, Nightmarish Exploration of Marriage and Sexuality in Kubrick’s Ultimate Film

    Almost a decade passed since Full Metal Jacket hit the theaters, and Stanley Kubrick lived…

    14. February 2018.Comments Off on ‘Eyes Wide Shut’: A Tense, Nightmarish Exploration of Marriage and Sexuality in Kubrick’s Ultimate FilmRead More

    “Throne of blood”: the value and meaning of Kurosawa’s fog-drenched masterpiece

    “Throne of blood”: the value and meaning of Kurosawa’s fog-drenched masterpiece

    After making Rashomon in 1950, Akira Kurosawa set his eyes on making a film based…

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    ‘Blade Runner’: A Game – changing science fiction classic

    ‘Blade Runner’: A Game – changing science fiction classic

      Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner‘s path to stardom and cultism has hardly been a bump-free…

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    Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”

    Jim Jarmusch: “What are they afraid of?”

    Mr. Jarmusch, you’ve lived in New York for over 40 years. Do you consider yourself…

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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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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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    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…

    Making of Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”

    Making of Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”

    Named by the British Film Institute as one of…

    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…

    The Power of Two

    The Power of Two

    In the fall of 1966, during a stretch of…

    Why Revolver is the greatest Beatles album?

    Why Revolver is the greatest Beatles album?

    The Beatles’ Revolver was released on 5 August 1966.…

    Revolver turns fifty: It’s the Beatles’ best album and I’ll fight you over that fact.

    Revolver turns fifty: It’s the Beatles’ best album and I’ll fight you over that fact.

    Which is more overrated: Sgt. Pepper’s or The White…

    How Radiohead Became The Beatles Of The 21st Century

    How Radiohead Became The Beatles Of The 21st Century

    In 1996, while most major British bands were blowing…

    Carl Jung Writes a Review of Joyce’s Ulysses and Mails It To The Author (1932)

    Carl Jung Writes a Review of Joyce’s Ulysses and Mails It To The Author (1932)

    Feelings about James Joyce’s Ulysses tend to fall roughly…

    When James Joyce & Marcel Proust Met in 1922, and Totally Bored Each Other

    When James Joyce & Marcel Proust Met in 1922, and Totally Bored Each Other

    When we invoke the names of famous artists of…

    “A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man” – James Joyce

    “A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man” – James Joyce

    The modernist classic, perhaps the greatest English-language Bildungsroman, turns…

    The Joyce Girl

    The Joyce Girl

    Lucia Joyce was the daughter of James Joyce –…

    The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality

    The Binary Code of Body and Spirit: Computing Pioneer Alan Turing on Mortality

    “The body provides something for the spirit to look…

    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…

    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 10 Most Significant Artistic and Philosophical Influences to Stanley Kubrick

    The 10 Most Significant Artistic and Philosophical Influences to Stanley Kubrick

    Everyone has to start somewhere. Geniuses are not born…

    Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay

    Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay

    For at least fifty years, the work of Stanley…

    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,…

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    Philosophy

    An Animated Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein & His Philosophical Insights on the Problems of Human Communication

    An Animated Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein & His Philosophical Insights on the Problems of Human Communication

    In the recorded history of philosophy, there may be no sharper a mind than Ludwig Wittgenstein. A bête noire, enfant terrible, and all other such phrases used to…

    11. September 2017.Comments Off on An Animated Introduction to Ludwig Wittgenstein & His Philosophical Insights on the Problems of Human Communication

    Arktogeja

    Wild Hunt

    Wild Hunt

    Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death?  Art thou not thyself the coffin full of…

    5. October 2016.Comments Off on Wild Hunt

    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

    How Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world

    How Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world

    The secret to Alexandria, if classical historians are to be believed, lies in a golden casket. Studded with jewels and small enough to hold in one’s hands,…

    20. October 2016.Comments Off on How Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world

    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

    Inside Giacometti’s studio

    Inside Giacometti’s studio

    Giacometti moved to his studio at 46 Rue Hippolyte-Maindron in Montparnasse, in December 1926. Open most of the time to friends, acquaintances and even strangers who happened to…

    24. June 2017.Comments Off on Inside Giacometti’s studio