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The Discipline of DE

17 April 2011 • watchings
tags: cinema, conscience, control, fiction, patterns

This short film by Gus Van Sant is so absurd in a sort of [search for proper adjective] way that it reminds me to Peter Greenaway.

The script is based on The Discipline of DE, a short story by William S. Burroughs from the book Exterminator!

El tormento de la elección

30 January 2011 • out of context
tags: books, conscience, control, quotes

“En cada acción siempre queda irrealizada la posibilidad contraria. Tenemos que elegir y decidirnos entre quedarnos en casa o salir, trabajar o no hacer nada, tener hijos o no tenerlos, reclamar el dinero o perdonar la deuda, matar al enemigo o dejarlo vivir. El tormento de la elección nos persigue constantemente. No podemos eludir la decisión, porque «no hacer nada» es ya decidir contra la acción, «no decidir» es una decisión contra la decisión”.

La enfermedad como camino
Thorwald Dethlefsen y Rudiger Dahlke

Watchings

26 January 2011 • watchings
tags: anguish, apocalypse, chaos, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, electricity, fiction, humour, television, tv series, uncertainty, zombies

• Arduino The Documentary (2010) [watch]

• Dead Set (2008)
Charlie Brooker

• Misfits, Season 2 (2010)
Howard Overman

• Sherlock, Season 1 (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat

• Dexter, Season 5 (2010)

• Breaking Bad, Seasons 1-3 (2008-2010)
Vince Gilligan

• Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 (2010)
Kurt Sutter

• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-5 (2005-2010)
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

• The Big Bang Theory, Seasons 1-3 (2007-2010)
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady

Toxic Ideas

8 January 2011 • outer
tags: analysis, brain, capitalism, civilization, conscience, control, perception, politics, religion

Watchings

24 October 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, brain, cinema, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, fantasy, fiction, hallucinations, killers, love, mathematics, murder, music, nature, particles, perception, politics, science, sound, space, television, time, tv series

• Fringe, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2010)
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci

• Человек с киноаппаратом / Man with a Movie Camera (1929) [watch]
Dziga Vertov

• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

• The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski

• El Abecedario de Gilles Deleuze. A de Animal (1988) [watch]

• Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder

• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sidney Lumet

Akrasia

14 October 2010 • out of context
tags: analysis, brain, conscience, control, desire

Akrasia (ancient Greek ἀκρασία, “lacking command (over oneself)”), occasionally transliterated as acrasia, is the state of acting against one’s better judgment.

The problem goes back at least as far as Plato. Socrates (in Plato’s Protagoras) asks precisely how this is possible – if one judges action A to be the best course of action, why would one do anything other than A?

Wikipedia