Light show: projection of photographs onto the façade and cupola of Saint Peter’s, taken from a repertoire of some of the world’s greatest photographers. These illuminations present images inspired of Mercy, of humanity, of the natural world, and of climate change.
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:
Siegfried Zielinski, German media theorist, and Boris Groys, Russian-German art historian, in conversation about media theory, technology and art. Zielinski interviews Groys about his new book, “Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media.” Topics discussed include ontological imagination, evil, conspiracy theory, the stupidity and intelligence of machines, phenomenology, avant-garde art, aura, the event, and dialectical materialism. Other philosophers and artists mentioned include Plato, Stalin, Derrida, and Malevich.
Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Siegfried Zielinski and Boris Groys.
“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
For one week in late September, New York City will be the center of gravity for the fight to confront climate change.
Every year, participants in the Burning Man Festival descend on the playa of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to form a temporary city — a self-reliant community populated by performers, artists, free spirits, and more. Last week, an estimated 65,000 people came to Burning Man 2014 from all over the world to dance, express themselves, and take in the spectacle. Reuters photographer Jim Urquhart spent the week in the desert, capturing some of the scenes from this year’s festival, which lasted a week and comes to its conclusion today.
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