Being in the Moment

Films that Have Sneaked Peeked Into Philosophy’s Realm Quite Well

Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) | The Fountainhead (1949, King Vidor) | The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) | La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini) | My Night at Maud’s (1969, Eric Rohmer) | Love and Death (1975, Woody Allen) | Being There (1979, Hal Ashby) |My Dinner with Andre (1981, Louis Malle) | Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott) | Barton Fink (1991, The Coen Brothers) | The Addiction (1995, Abel Ferrara) | The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir) | The Matrix (1999, The Wachowskis) | Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan) | Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater) | I Heart Huckabees (2004, David O’Russell) | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry) | The Fountain (2006, Darren Aronofsky)

Honorable mentions:

The Stranger by Luchino Visconti | Inception by Christopher Nolan | A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick | Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky | Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa | Lake of Fire by Tony Kaye | Cartesius by Roberto Rossellini | The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont | 12 Angry Men by Sidney Lumet.
Read more here | TASTE OF CINEMA

The Derridean Trace | What Precedes the Question?

Merleau-Ponty on Form, Content, and Space | Agreement and Juxtaposition with Native Metaphysics and Ontology

“… allowed me to see what was  a l w a y s   t h e r e…”

“… help me to remember where we came from… This is not “me”. We come from a long line of “me”…”

“… on the whole, my heart has the rhythm of the planets.”

“… the only thing you need to do is be there. The answers will come to you.”

“There are so many heavens up there. So many places to travel…”

 

Schirmacher (R)evolution in Saas-Fee: The Badiouan EVENT Takes For(u)m

“A radical change is required for the human species to survive, and if we want to prevent our destruction, we must learn a “bodily” langauge which precedes the division into subject and object, and admit the individual into a successful enterprise that needs no planning.” —Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher “The End of Metaphysics” 1983

Alain Badiou: AN EVENT IS A SURPRISE; IF IT IS NOT A SURPRISE, IT IS NOT AN EVENT

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Badiou’s EVENT

 

Truth be Told, Philosophy Rules Your World | Ethos of the Extraordinary

To the seafaring Greeks, one of the greatest fears was to perish, without a trace, under the sea. Life must matter; you must make sure it does. This is what Goldstein aptly calls the “ethos of the extraordinary,” the need to carve your permanence in this life so that it survives after your death. Blending Plato and Dylan Thomas, the message would go like this: rage, rage against the ordinariness of sameness. “It is, in the end, the only kind of immortality for which we may hope,” Goldstein writes.

Philosophy Rules Your World | NPR

 

Slavoj Zizek | Ontological Incompleteness in Film | European Graduate School

Alain Badiou | Being and Change | European Graduate School

Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School | EGS – Media and Communication Studies Department | Saas-Fee, Switzerland