My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have […]
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Toward an ecophilosophical cinema
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged film, Malick, Peirce, von Trier on February 17, 2012 | 13 Comments »
philosophy of the moment
Posted in Philosophy, tagged pragmatism on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Carrera’s Philosophy is Not a Luxury has been posting some pithy articulations of the process-relational philosophies of James, Dewey, Peirce, and others in the American pragmatist tradition. It’s too bad that the word “pragmatism” in its everyday sense doesn’t do justice to these thinkers — rather like the terms “stoicism” and “epicureanism” don’t do […]