Pier Paulo Pasolini's engagement with Antonio Gramsci is both inspiring and tragic, beginning wit... more Pier Paulo Pasolini's engagement with Antonio Gramsci is both inspiring and tragic, beginning with Pasolini's early poem, "The Ashes of Gramsci," and ending with the film-maker's murder in 1975. In his essays and films, Pasolini explores his affective, aesthetic preoccupation with the "sub-proletariat" of the Roman suburbs, contrasting it with Gramsci's political and strategic concerns. This article analyses that material with special emphasis on its relation to Pasolini's work on the semiotics of film and his theory of the "cinema of poetry.
This chapter is a philosophical meditation on art made in virtual worlds. It proceeds by locating... more This chapter is a philosophical meditation on art made in virtual worlds. It proceeds by locating such art within three thematic contexts, those of new media art, computer-generated virtuality, and worldhood. Discussion of these themes draws upon the resources of Western philosophy, including the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Scotus, Kant, Marx, Bergson, Husserl, Benjamin, Adorno, and Deleuze. The meditation concludes by specifying six dimensional characteristics that make virtual worlds a unique medium of aesthetic expression: immersion, interaction, ambiguity of identity, environmental fluidity, artificial agency, and networked collaboration. While other art forms might share one or two of these characteristics, only the art of virtual worlds is capable of exhibiting all six, so that it is the full cluster of characteristics that makes this media unique.
... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - ... more ... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - are quite different from the laws of nature. ... Adorno devel-oped this claim in some detail in a series of articles on jazz.' Seemingly democratic, jazz is in actuality totali-tarian. ...
An oncologist reflects on how telemedicine has changed the interaction between doctor and patient... more An oncologist reflects on how telemedicine has changed the interaction between doctor and patient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I would like to begin with some reflections on the theme of this double issue of Works and Days a... more I would like to begin with some reflections on the theme of this double issue of Works and Days and Cultural Logic, Transforming Praxis in and beyond the University . The phrase, “transforming praxis,” which obviously refers to Marx’s work, is a pleonasm. For Marx, all praxis is transformative, although the object and mode of transformation varies in the two kinds of praxis he describes.
Pasolini’nin ilk siiri, “Gramsci’nin Kulleri”, ile baslayan ve film yapimcisinin 1975’teki cinaye... more Pasolini’nin ilk siiri, “Gramsci’nin Kulleri”, ile baslayan ve film yapimcisinin 1975’teki cinayeti ile sonlanan Pier Paulo Pasolini’nin Antonio Gramsci ile olan etkilesimi hem ilham verici hem de trajiktir. Makalelerinde ve filmlerinde Pasolini, Gramsci’nin politik ve stratejik kaygilari ile celisen, onun Roma banliyolerinin “alt-proleteryasi” ile olan duygusal, estetik mesgalesini arastirmaktadir. Bu makale bu bulguyu, onun Pasolini’nin filmin semiyotigi ve onun “siir sinemasi”nin teorisi uzerine calismasiyla iliskisine ozel onem vererek analiz etmektedir.
The history of strikes in the United States among tenured and tenure-stream professors at private... more The history of strikes in the United States among tenured and tenure-stream professors at private colleges and universities is exceedingly thin. Faculty unionization in both private and public sector institutions of higher education began only in the late 1960s, and the Supreme Court's Yeshiva decision of 1980 effectively put an end to unionization efforts among tenured and tenure-stream professors in the private sector by denying them the protection of the National Labor Relations Act. (Faculty members in public institutions fall under the jurisdiction of state labor relations law and so are not subject to Yeshiva). In the decade-long period in which unionization efforts proceeded among tenured and tenure-stream faculty members in the private sector, only one strike took place at a major institution: the Boston University strike of 1979. In addition to being the sole instance of its genus, the BU strike was quite an extraordinary event in two other respects as well. It placed t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 414-4... more Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 414-421).
... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - ... more ... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - are quite different from the laws of nature. ... Adorno devel-oped this claim in some detail in a series of articles on jazz.' Seemingly democratic, jazz is in actuality totali-tarian. ...
... In order to secure a positive conception of utopia, Bloch had to fight a battle simultaneousl... more ... In order to secure a positive conception of utopia, Bloch had to fight a battle simultaneously on two fronts. ... In Spirit of Utopia, which is itself a work of philosophical and poetic expressionism,Bloch argues that music is in its essence an expressionist art. ...
Pier Paulo Pasolini's engagement with Antonio Gramsci is both inspiring and tragic, beginning wit... more Pier Paulo Pasolini's engagement with Antonio Gramsci is both inspiring and tragic, beginning with Pasolini's early poem, "The Ashes of Gramsci," and ending with the film-maker's murder in 1975. In his essays and films, Pasolini explores his affective, aesthetic preoccupation with the "sub-proletariat" of the Roman suburbs, contrasting it with Gramsci's political and strategic concerns. This article analyses that material with special emphasis on its relation to Pasolini's work on the semiotics of film and his theory of the "cinema of poetry.
This chapter is a philosophical meditation on art made in virtual worlds. It proceeds by locating... more This chapter is a philosophical meditation on art made in virtual worlds. It proceeds by locating such art within three thematic contexts, those of new media art, computer-generated virtuality, and worldhood. Discussion of these themes draws upon the resources of Western philosophy, including the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Scotus, Kant, Marx, Bergson, Husserl, Benjamin, Adorno, and Deleuze. The meditation concludes by specifying six dimensional characteristics that make virtual worlds a unique medium of aesthetic expression: immersion, interaction, ambiguity of identity, environmental fluidity, artificial agency, and networked collaboration. While other art forms might share one or two of these characteristics, only the art of virtual worlds is capable of exhibiting all six, so that it is the full cluster of characteristics that makes this media unique.
... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - ... more ... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - are quite different from the laws of nature. ... Adorno devel-oped this claim in some detail in a series of articles on jazz.' Seemingly democratic, jazz is in actuality totali-tarian. ...
An oncologist reflects on how telemedicine has changed the interaction between doctor and patient... more An oncologist reflects on how telemedicine has changed the interaction between doctor and patient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I would like to begin with some reflections on the theme of this double issue of Works and Days a... more I would like to begin with some reflections on the theme of this double issue of Works and Days and Cultural Logic, Transforming Praxis in and beyond the University . The phrase, “transforming praxis,” which obviously refers to Marx’s work, is a pleonasm. For Marx, all praxis is transformative, although the object and mode of transformation varies in the two kinds of praxis he describes.
Pasolini’nin ilk siiri, “Gramsci’nin Kulleri”, ile baslayan ve film yapimcisinin 1975’teki cinaye... more Pasolini’nin ilk siiri, “Gramsci’nin Kulleri”, ile baslayan ve film yapimcisinin 1975’teki cinayeti ile sonlanan Pier Paulo Pasolini’nin Antonio Gramsci ile olan etkilesimi hem ilham verici hem de trajiktir. Makalelerinde ve filmlerinde Pasolini, Gramsci’nin politik ve stratejik kaygilari ile celisen, onun Roma banliyolerinin “alt-proleteryasi” ile olan duygusal, estetik mesgalesini arastirmaktadir. Bu makale bu bulguyu, onun Pasolini’nin filmin semiyotigi ve onun “siir sinemasi”nin teorisi uzerine calismasiyla iliskisine ozel onem vererek analiz etmektedir.
The history of strikes in the United States among tenured and tenure-stream professors at private... more The history of strikes in the United States among tenured and tenure-stream professors at private colleges and universities is exceedingly thin. Faculty unionization in both private and public sector institutions of higher education began only in the late 1960s, and the Supreme Court's Yeshiva decision of 1980 effectively put an end to unionization efforts among tenured and tenure-stream professors in the private sector by denying them the protection of the National Labor Relations Act. (Faculty members in public institutions fall under the jurisdiction of state labor relations law and so are not subject to Yeshiva). In the decade-long period in which unionization efforts proceeded among tenured and tenure-stream faculty members in the private sector, only one strike took place at a major institution: the Boston University strike of 1979. In addition to being the sole instance of its genus, the BU strike was quite an extraordinary event in two other respects as well. It placed t...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 414-4... more Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University, 1987. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 414-421).
... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - ... more ... Yet in Adorno's view, musical 'laws' - like those of economics and politics - are quite different from the laws of nature. ... Adorno devel-oped this claim in some detail in a series of articles on jazz.' Seemingly democratic, jazz is in actuality totali-tarian. ...
... In order to secure a positive conception of utopia, Bloch had to fight a battle simultaneousl... more ... In order to secure a positive conception of utopia, Bloch had to fight a battle simultaneously on two fronts. ... In Spirit of Utopia, which is itself a work of philosophical and poetic expressionism,Bloch argues that music is in its essence an expressionist art. ...
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