tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post1138230960052576903..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: SchoolmastersZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-81320588218793190802010-09-15T08:11:52.298-04:002010-09-15T08:11:52.298-04:00Such authors try do be clever without significant ...Such authors try do be clever without significant results.Dianabolhttp://glvitamins.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-80964016166913159142008-07-15T23:41:00.000-04:002008-07-15T23:41:00.000-04:00Zach, Heidegger is a great and worthy task. I love...Zach, <BR/>Heidegger is a great and worthy task. I love his "On the Origin of the Work of Art," which should be / is an essential text for those of us who approach the image as a subject. He's also a great entryway into certain Greeks (Parmenides, Anaximander, Heraclitus) if you're reading his post-<I>Being and Time</I> work, which I find especially powerful. <BR/><BR/>Husserl and Heidegger have a weird dynamic that I haven't quite sussed out yet, but the Germanic H I'd venture most worthy of serious philosophical attention via Heidegger is probably Hölderlin (but so much is lost in translation!)David McDougallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11020826602374694194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-25312555660417696962008-07-11T03:33:00.000-04:002008-07-11T03:33:00.000-04:00Well I don't think I've read as much as you have o...Well I don't think I've read as much as you have on this film yet, but I remember this Rancière lettre was very good. And in general Costa's film has been overlooked by the critics who wrote on it...<BR/>Yes you can use my gmail address.HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-77868379982512264472008-07-11T00:23:00.000-04:002008-07-11T00:23:00.000-04:00Thanks for noticing Harry!As soon as I get the cha...Thanks for noticing Harry!<BR/>As soon as I get the chance <BR/>I'll email you a few things for your marvellous Costa resource page (I'll use the email address on your blogger profile; let me know if you have a different email address - been meaning to contact you...). <BR/>In the meantime: so, you must've read Ranciere's LA LETTRE DE VENTURA...do I exaggerate? Of course, one never wants to say something is "the best" but doesn't it tend to much more of COLOSSAL's garden than most? His piece in the forthcoming Ricardo Matos Cabo edited bi-lingual book is also admirably lacking mystification, lucid, beautiful, brief, charged, extremely minute in dealing with few moments (for example, from the wine bottles to the museum in COLOSSAL): "POLITIQUE DE PEDRO COSTA" -<BR/><BR/>yours<BR/>andyAndy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-5193062075977406012008-07-10T07:20:00.000-04:002008-07-10T07:20:00.000-04:00Hey Andy, I noticed you had a piece on Ventura in ...Hey Andy, I noticed you had a piece on Ventura in the latest issue of the French <A HREF="http://www.revuevertigo.com/dernier-numero.html" REL="nofollow">Vertigo</A> too. Since you've read everything, could you let me know what articles are missing on this <A HREF="http://unspokencinema.blogspot.com/2008/03/pedro-costa-links.html" REL="nofollow">Costa link page</A>? I try to keep it as comprehensive as possible... It would be greatly appreciated.HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-27974401817787129002008-07-10T04:36:00.000-04:002008-07-10T04:36:00.000-04:00I am told two things by a guy whose name I'm tired...I am told two things by a guy whose name I'm tired of dropping, but a guy I assure you knows his political philosophy and film criticism:<BR/><BR/>-Ranciere's books on worker-philosophers eg. Les nuits des prolétaires, and in general his early books of worker's history are the most invigorating and necessary. They're not yet part of the wave of Ranciere translations (let's ask why).<BR/><BR/>-Ranciere is one of the greatest living <I>film critics</I>. Again, this is something I was told by someone who is alive to all French and English film criticism. When I read one of Ranciere's film essays on LA CHINOISE in his book FILM FABLES, I thought, my god - the negotiation of thought between political theory, secular Marxisms of the time, Godard's forms, details of the film...- in France, I thought, the thought on film is advanced. No. Ranciere is exceptional; this person told me; the greatest living film critic. <BR/><BR/>Studying Pedro Costa's work steadily for over a year now I've read nearly everything that's been written on his films in english, french, and portuguese. I can say without a doubt that Ranciere's piece in TRAFIC on COLOSSAL YOUTH is best piece on this film. It manages to touch upon nearly every plane and character of the film; it proposes 3 or 4 ideas about each plane/character; and all in only about 1000 words. <BR/><BR/>I agree with what you say about Marx....Zizek is a comfort zone.Andy Rectorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15870363285627741234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-61321107361841664512008-07-02T22:31:00.000-04:002008-07-02T22:31:00.000-04:00"(Signed, the Faker.)"The wise man is the one who ..."(Signed, the Faker.)"<BR/><BR/>The wise man is the one who knows that he does not know.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615199937354749817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-33581704753522844522008-07-02T19:21:00.000-04:002008-07-02T19:21:00.000-04:00Isn't this the same question as we encounter in Hi...<I>Isn't this the same question as we encounter in Hippias Greater and Minor?</I><BR/><BR/>I wouldn't know--as you're aware I'm way behind you on the Greeks, not to mention probably everything else. (Signed, the Faker.)ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-71826699167953501152008-07-02T19:13:00.000-04:002008-07-02T19:13:00.000-04:00Isn't this the same question as we encounter in Hi...Isn't this the same question as we encounter in Hippias Greater and Minor? Who is really the wise man and who the sophist or faker?<BR/><BR/>Relating back to our discussion of Obama's rhetoric a while back - I was just reading Avempace's The Governance of the Solitary and found it wonderfully apropos to that topic, as well as charming in general.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615199937354749817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-82453166689595469662008-07-02T09:02:00.000-04:002008-07-02T09:02:00.000-04:00In retrospect: I was trying to be a little tongue-...In retrospect: I was trying to be a little tongue-in-cheek with the first graf of my previous comment, but I don't think it's come off well. (Talking about philosophers like indie bands.) If it's not clear, of course, simply "knowing" and being able to drop the names of older, more obscure, less modish figures is on its own no cure against the imperatives of fashion. The search for 'newness' is ubiquitous and omnivorous ...ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-63748230375663096552008-07-02T07:32:00.000-04:002008-07-02T07:32:00.000-04:00Heidegger himself too, to a more limited extent. ...Heidegger himself too, to a more limited extent. If someone's read Husserl attentively, that's an even better (likely) sign of serious searching, and if we're sticking to Germanic H's, what of Herder or Hamann? I read some stuff on Benjamin recently indicating that he didn't like to read fashionable books until well after they were fashionable. That's a man after my own heart (though if I followed it completely I wouldn't read Benjamin).<BR/><BR/>(Can't recall off the top if B wrote this in a letter, or if Adorno or Scholem passed on the info in something they wrote...)<BR/><BR/>Not that I've yet read much H. myself. Shamefully I am still "trivial in this manner," I must admit, tunneling & tunneling but moving slowly. I <I>do</I> have an amusing anecdote about when I was actually reading a bit of <I>Being and Time</I> in the park a couple weeks ago...<BR/><BR/>Your comment touches upon what forms the content for a (probable) upcoming post, of which I've already written a few words.ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-81450435048748792362008-07-01T13:39:00.000-04:002008-07-01T13:39:00.000-04:00Haven't read the book, but from your description (...Haven't read the book, but from your description (as well as Wikipedia) Jacotot was heavily influenced by Rousseau's Emile (as I would presume, Ranciere is as well).<BR/><BR/>Knowledge of philosopher's names is just another piece of social capital, not unlike, in another age, knowledge of Biarritz or Baden-Baden or Newport. A good test of whether someone is serious or trivial in this matter is to test whether they've followed up on the allusions and references in the works - it's easy and hip to name-check Zizek but hard to understand Heidegger.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16615199937354749817noreply@blogger.com