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Le Mal du Grand Frère

(Extrait de “L’Horizon de Neith”) Le nom rayé de l’identité…

10 Movie Directors Who Made More Than 5 Masterpieces

When the writers (and future film makers) of the influential…

Three Perspectives on Fitzcarraldo

In Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, the jungle, oppressive and thick, provides…

The Birth of Joy Division

The Joy Division story has been told many times, yet it never…

The Pantheon (Rome)

The eighth wonder of the ancient world The Pantheon in…

Petra: The rose red city of the Nabataeans

There is only one true way to experience Petra—the greatest…

The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has…

10 of the Most Iconic Buildings of Modern Architecture

Modern architecture is the school of design that prevailed since…

A portrait of Stanley Kubrick as a young photographer: A different lens

A new book and exhibition, Through a Different Lens, celebrates…

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living in a Healthy Democracy

Bertrand Russell saw the history of civilization as being shaped by…

Erotic engravings from a poem celebrating sex, 1825

Volumes of vintage erotica are wasted on academics. Just think…

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

“The body provides something for the spirit to look after…

Music

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

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’

“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

“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

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

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

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

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The 10 Best Structured Movies of All Time

It’s amazing to think of the vast methods one can use to structure a story.…

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P.U.L.S.E

Mind and Cognition

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

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?

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

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

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

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’

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

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

The purpose of this essay is to offer a…

The 30 Most Influential Movies In Cinema History

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

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”

Yesterday we ran a list of 93 films beloved…

The Poetic Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky

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

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

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

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’

Psychedelic drug inspired their masterpiece – but also opened…

The Untold Stories of Paul McCartney

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

The Beatles: 1967–1970

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

The Power of Two

In the fall of 1966, during a stretch of…

A short story about killing

I decided to kill. Perhaps it is better say…

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

Last year, fans of modernist Irish literature and impressionist…

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

We see ancient edifices around the globe, like thе…

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

Photographer Tomasz Lazar asks us to envision the final…

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

It all started with an educational video. Benjamin Grant…

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

Next year will be the 50th Anniversary of one…

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

Everyone has to start somewhere. Geniuses are not born…

The 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

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…

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Mythology

La Déesse Triple – Nouvelle interprétation du trône d’Ananké

L’impasse de l’histoire humaine aboutit à l’aliénation de l’empreinte archioriginaire, imprimée dans tous les êtres et concentrée dans l’œil de l’oiselle/la prunelle du Soleil –…

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Archaeology

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…

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Architecture

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…

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Culture

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…

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Religion

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…

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Art

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…

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