I caught bits of The Wedding Singer tonight on the television. Plot described on IMDB.com as: “Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.” I was struck by the scene where Julia (Drew Barrymore) is speaking to […]
Monthly Archives: June 2005
18 People
I went over to my old flat in Camperdown earlier to turn the fridge off and empty it out as the appliance rental people are coming to pick it up tomorrow. In this contemporary age of modern durable appliances the sight of an empty fridge feels incredible barren. An affect of pure neglect. All that […]
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby
The Critic’s Technique in Thirteen Theses By Walter Benjamin. I. The critic is the strategist in the literary battle. II. He who cannot take sides should keep silent. III. The critic has nothing in common with the interpreter of past cultural epochs. IV. Criticism must talk the language of artists. For the terms of the […]
Musing on a Philosophy Conference
So I attended the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 2005 conference at UNSW last week. I got to meet some of the superstars of the philosophy world and was lucky enough to hear some good papers that pushed my thinking. Sandy, Mel and Mark (yes, I am a good looking bloke, lol!) were there at […]
singular complementarity
Even when it is a sodden winter’s day everything is bright when you meet someone you want to meet again. And when you do meet again, or even, perhaps, during the first meeting, every gesture or movement is another microphysical meeting of sorts. A meeting of inifite meetings. I wanted to keep having such meetings. […]