Archive for May, 2008

The One Movie Meme

Published May 13, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment

1. One movie that made you laugh
Kicking and Screaming

2. One movie that made you cry
Life is Beautiful (gets me every time)

3. One movie you loved when you were a child
Monty Python’s: the Search for the Holy Grail

4. One movie you’ve seen more than once
Good Will Hunting

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it
The Devil Wears Prada

6. One movie you hated
The Fountain

7. One movie that scared you
The Ring (Creeeeepy!)

8. One movie that bored you

The Fountain
9. One movie that made you happy
Once

10. One movie that made you miserable
Walk the Line (I loved the movie, it just left me feeling super depressed)

11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see
Teeth

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with
Pretty much every role Nicole Kidman has ever played

13. The last movie you saw
Iron Man


14. The next movie you hope to see
The new Indiana Jones Movie (Booyah!)

15. Now tag five people: Adam, Patrick, Sam, Eric, Luke

…between Levinas and Derrida…

Published May 3, 2008 Derrida , Emmanuel Levinas , Otherness 2 Comments
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As I have been reading Levinas over the past couple months, I have found it rather difficult to locate people who want to engage with me concerning his work and ideas. In light of this, I have simply turned my attention to finding other books that engage his philosophy and settle for people in print. I’ll be the first to admit that his work isn’t the most accessible, but I’m truly convinced that his ideas are worth all the hard work it takes to understand.

With that said, I stumbled across a helpful blog this morning titled “…between Levinas and Derrida…” This blog appears to be a college course on the work of Levinas and Derrida, and issues of otherness in general. As a college course, it may only have limited lifespan, and therefore a limited value, but it looks rather promising for entering into discussions on the work of Levinas. I’m hoping that it will be as promising as it looks. So, if anyone is interested I would encourage you to check it out. I’ve included the link above, or it can also be found on my blogroll.