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Death and Persona

Heidegger calls each human being a “being unto death”–that is, a being turned toward and moving in death’s direction. What is the consequence of this? One is that each of us adopts a persona. The time-limiting nature of your existence … Continue reading

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A clever ad worth seeing

This ad demonstrates the ways in which people at once reveal and conceal their physical traits and personas  to others online: Who are you, really?

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Beatboxing on a Flute!

Brilliant.

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Memo to Self: Dance Your Life Without Worrying about What Others Might Think of You

And in what you love and dream, be free.

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The Energy of a Thing

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A Victor Shklovsky Defamiliarization Gesture: The Bust of Caesar Set Alongside the Bust of a Woman

    The Caesar bust is at the Huntington Library in California; the female bust is by Renoir.

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Slate Reviews James Wood’s New Book, “How Fiction Works”

Slate yesterday had an interesting review of New Yorker book critic James Wood’s new book. Money quote: I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way, but by the end of How Fiction Works, I felt as though I had just read a … Continue reading

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Camille Paglia on Feminism

Camille Paglia recently had an essay on feminism published in the journal Arion. It is based on a lecture that she gave in April 2008. Here’s the link: http://www.bu.edu/arion/Paglia%2016-1.html

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