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REALFAKE: Versioning

dannspann wrote 2 days ago: Here, the Titanic example is reduced to an abstract form by considering the event, the movie, … more →

Tags: INVIVIA, REALFAKE, artificial, authenticity, cgi, counterfeit, fake, Fakery, hyperreality

REALFAKE: Places

dannspann wrote 2 days ago: Hearst Castle - San Simeon, California Knott’s Berry Farm - Buena Park, California Calico, Cali … more →

Tags: INVIVIA, REALFAKE, artificial, authenticity, cgi, counterfeit, fake, Fakery, ghost town

REALFAKE: Identities

dannspann wrote 2 days ago: … more →

Tags: INVIVIA, REALFAKE, artificial, authenticity, Celebrity, cgi, counterfeit, fake, Fakery

REALFAKE: Introduction

dannspann wrote 2 days ago: “…people don’t believe there is a difference between real and fake anymore. Bernar … more →

Tags: REALFAKE, INVIVIA, hyperreality, Real, fake, authenticity, reality, counterfeit, mulacra

multitasking1 comment

katherinejina wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ve heard that girls are better at multitasking than boys.  I feel like that’s true. I … more →

Tags: Books, TS Eliot, Crime and Punishment, the mysterious flame of queen loana, The Wasteland

CAROLL'S PHILOSPHY: LANGAUGE & CONTINGENCY IN ALICE IN WONDERLAND

ccwe wrote 3 weeks ago: Lewis Caroll John Tufail Although much has been written on Lewis Carroll’s philosophy, it can be … more →

Tags: INTERNET PUBLICATIONS, A Theory of Semiotics, Althusser, Alton Locke, Aristotle, Ayer, Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1903), Cartoonists, Charles Kingsley

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

ohdearanotherusername wrote 3 weeks ago: William of Baskervilles is an English monk visiting a rich Italian abbey on a political mission. … more →

Tags: Shrug, 101 words, Book Review, the name of the rose

The Dark Knight10 comments

Troy Polidori wrote 4 weeks ago: The Semiotics of Batman The Dark Knight is a semiological masterpiece. Like Umberto Eco’s Th … more →

Tags: film, Agamben, Batman, Christopher Nolan, Coen Bros., Deleuze, Lacan, Rene Girard, Reviews

More on How Fiction Works and someone else's review doesn't

Jake Seliger wrote 1 month ago: In The Australian, a nominal review of James Wood’s How Fiction Works is really a discussion o … more →

Tags: Books, Links, Culture, Philosophy, Art, Novels, Paul Graham, A Reader's Manifesto, Literature

WINIFRED-EMMA: FORGET THE NOBLE TRUTHS © sophia wellbeloved

ccwe wrote 1 month ago: Before we begin … I want to clear something up straight off, which is: I am writing this, that’ … more →

Tags: WINIFRED-EMMA: FORGET THE NOBLE TRUTHS PAGE, Sophia Wellbeloved, Winifred Emma, forgetting wisedom, mermaids, body fluids, nora ephron, Philip Roth, John Updike

Sostiene Eco14 comments

Zamax wrote 1 month ago: GIACOBINISMO AGGIORNATO DEL XXI SECOLO: OVVERO IL LUPO PERDE IL PELO MA NON IL VIZIO (la repubblica … more →

Tags: Italia, Giacobinismo, la repubblica

just another future song

Michael Clark wrote 1 month ago: just_another_future_song, originally uploaded by earthpages. … more →

Tags: Art, Music, Myth, Only in Canada? Pity!, Philosophy, Photography, Psychology, Religion, Sci-Fi

Travels in Hyperreality

acanemic wrote 1 month ago: by Umberto Eco; translated by William Weaver New York: Harvest/HBJ, 1986 ————————— … more →

Tags: essays, Middle Ages, Postmodernism

Enigma5 comments

athinkingman wrote 1 month ago: My iGoogle quote for the day gave me the following which I thought was so wonderful I was ‘mov … more →

Tags: existential, Enigma, iGoogle

Great Quote

jlapine wrote 1 month ago: I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by … more →

Tags: Quotes, Quote

Ang pagsulat ng Erotica at ang Panitikan

John Ryan Recabar wrote 2 months ago: Katatapos ko pa lamang basahin ang aklat ng mga sanaysay ni Umberto Eco na pinamagatang How to Trave … more →

Tags: Book Review, Caludia Koronel, panitikan, Erotica, How to Travel with a Salmon

To the Lighthouse1 comment

Jake Seliger wrote 2 months ago: Are people afraid of Virginia Woolf, per the Edward Albee play, because she’s got the reputati … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, Reviews, Art, Novels, Literature, Modernism, James Wood, Virginia Woolf

Life

Jake Seliger wrote 2 months ago: “You live on the surface,” Lia told me years later. “You sometimes seem profound, … more →

Tags: Life, Books, Literature, Foucault, Foucault's Pendulum

Secret recipe to writing

insightwards wrote 2 months ago: What makes a good writer? Listening to what my favourite Aussie writers have to say or suggest o … more →

Tags: corpus, Patrick White, Australian Writers, writing, Great writers, writing recipe, recipe to writing, Peter Carey, David Malouf


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