28 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Ch. 2 – The American Story, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
Like transgression needs an ideology justifying it, ideology needs transgression. The criminals feel that they have the right to commit crime because “they were abusedâ€, or “were victims of injusticeâ€, etc. The same is with group or nation ready to trespass the law (“we have the right to revengeâ€). We feel justified indignation against those […]
19 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Jean-Luc Godard
JLG making “Weekendâ€, 1967 Godard is wrestling with an Angel – trying to overcome his cognitive opponent Godard is happily enjoying his sudden present – his new (and with new tricks and pranks) camera Jean-Luc introducing his wife – actress Anne Wiazemsky to Pier Paolo Pasolini who will work with her in his “Theorem†and […]
15 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as "The Devil, Probably†By Robert Bresson, 1977 – Bresson’s Incredible Cinematic Art Talks For Itself, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations
12 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Georges Rouault, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
Georges Rouault, “Christ on the Road I†Here we see Christ with two people whom he explains what they need to hear from him. Christ has stopped with them on the road from a little church, on the way to another parts of the world. Rouault’s way of painting the landscape blurs everything around – […]
08 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Ch. 9. We-are-the-richest: from Monking (Money-making) to Buysumption (Consumption of Money), Last pp. 9-10, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
Last Pages (p. 10-12) From Ch. 9 of the Book “Ideological Superstitions and Political Misperceptions in the 20-21st centuries†By comparing these four modes of the conformism in relation to power we see that with each step of seeming distancing from power (direct support, indirect support, enjoyment of power as spectacle and consumption) the consciousness […]
07 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Ch. 9. We-are-the-richest: from Monking (Money-making) to Buysumption (Consumption of Money), Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
Segment from Ch. 9 of the Book “Ideological Superstitions and Political Misperceptions in the 20-21st centuries†“‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something,’ wrote Upton Sinclair, ‘when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’†(Paul Krugman, “The Great Unraveling [Loosing our Way in the New Century]â€, W.W. Norton, 2004, p. 210), […]
06 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Ch. 7. SRussian Marxism’s Boiling and Bullying -“Inevitable Laws of Historical Development are on our Side†Part 2, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
last part from chapter 7 of the Book “Ideological Superstitions and Political Misperceptions in the 20-21st centuries†But let’s imagine that somebody who projects to the world his identity, be it his passionate religious or ideological belief or the truth about his sexual choice, does this only seemingly while in reality he is making a […]
05 Jul 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Ch. 7. SRussian Marxism’s Boiling and Bullying - “Laws of Historical Development are on our Sideâ€, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
Segment from Chapter of the Book “Ideological Superstitions and Political Misperceptions in the 20-21st centuries†“Don’t blame me for my sexual choice†– say American gay and lesbian. “It’s not really my choice. It is not my caprice or a form of resistance or my fantasy. My homosexuality is written in my genes. I am […]