The psychological need for an ‘aim’ or ‘end’ is inculcated in us by fictional narrative, made ‘normal’ by our talking of Being rather than, as Heidegger states, Becoming – the latter term though being a more accurate description of “human life”. However, even accepting Heidegger’s distinction, we can see here a connection with the “quest …
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The Fragmentation of Unity
At the centre of the capitalist project lies the contradiction between the individual and community. The former is fetishised, while the latter is divided into two: (i) An (unachievable because undesirable) aspiration and, (ii), a lost “golden age”, always past, always nostalgic. Community is the staple ingredient of the soap opera, embedded into a mythological …
The Spectator as Ideological Construct
In cinema, as in theatre (as Peter Brook) argues, the crucial ‘character’ is the spectator. We can remark, in passing, that this is also the case with VR. All three of these art forms require a consciousness, a discerning subject, to exist (in the human sense). Put another way, and to widen the scope of …
Murmurs from the Forest 