Daily Archives: July 17, 2008

Femme Fatales and a Hegelian Computer: Jean-Luc Goddard’s Must-See Film, “Alphaville”

Alphaville is at once innovative and thought provoking. Made in 1965, the film seems to inadvertently capture the French philosophical shift from Existentialism to Postmodernism. At the time of the making of this film, Sartre was “in” and Derrida was … Continue reading

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Know Hope: Barack Obama and the Liberal Journey

  Martin Luther King once said:   If you can’t run, walk.   If you can’t walk, crawl.   But by all means, keep moving.

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“California in 1957”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

     Giants and Dodgers   moving west   without Ebbets Field   or Jackie Robinson   but with Jack Kerouac   and Holiday Inns   rounding third at the Pacific   and driving   not sliding   home

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Can the New Testament Really Be Read as Literature in the Same Way That We Might Read an Auden Poem as Literature? Are You Sure?

It’s probably a safe bet to say that, in American culture, most of the time, when a person approaches the New Testament it’s for life-direction (“What must I do to be saved?”), or for information (“What does Paul say about … Continue reading

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“Spontaneous Buddha Nature”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella

    through feathery clouds the sun opened   like the eye of an owl—   and in the sudden bullet of glare   the quicksilver breast   of a train

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It’s Not Just Communion Wafers That Are Sacred: How PZ Myers Puts First Editions of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” and Trilobite Fossils at Risk

University of Minnesota biologist PZ Myers’s iconoclastic stupidity is putting not just Catholics at risk of harrassment, but atheists. He’s attempting to make it socially acceptable to infiltrate the inner sanctum of groups, play their members for fools, and then post … Continue reading

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