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  Why Moral Philosophy?

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  Brian Price University of Toronto

  January 30, 2023

  instead, are two of the reasons I have devoted myself, for at least fifteen years now, to moral philosophy. ... to think about it” (1981, 10). This implies, for me, at least two things: that in being taught by the ... moral philosophy, at least when it is being written, as “philosophy” implies, as a question. Moral ...
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  Against Identification

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  Daniel Morgan University of Chicago

  February 02, 2023

  Curator's Note Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) begins, famously, with a meta-cinematic sequence. The ... illuminated tips of an arc lamp flare in the darkness, and then images begin with flashing clips evoking film ... infantile drama: how infants begin to relate to the world around them, how they differentiate self from ...
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  How I Have Not Written Certain of My Readings

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  Eugenie Brinkema Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  March 13, 2023

  themes, it also means that one begins reading from some (any) particular details of a particular textual ... north of sixty, at least ten, times, scribbling furiously, notebooks filled. You’ll measure out your ...
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  Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus?

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  Maggie Hennefeld University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  James Leo Cahill University of Toronto

  April 06, 2020

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  Is Social Media Like the Coronavirus? Pandemic film theory Digital Media aesthetics and politics social media Curator's Note If the essential theater is like the plague, it is not because it is contagious, but because like the plague it is the revela ...
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  A View from the Music: Anacinema for Other Ends

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  Alessandra Raengo Georgia State University

  January 31, 2023

  of this praxis. It seemingly begins with a delayed synchronization, and yet Alice Smith’s voice ...
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  New life for dead cinema(s): Impossible mission?

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  Daniel Binns RMIT University

  February 04, 2021

  least partly dependent on chance, on sheer dumb luck — luck that will dictate (a) whether everything ...
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  The Pathological Gaze

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  Damon R Young UC Berkeley

  February 01, 2023

  However, at the very moment the couple begins to embrace, the protagonist moves on to the fourth door, ...
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  Breaking Plates: Feminist Archives, Media Fragments, and Film Theory Now!

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  Maggie Hennefeld University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

  March 13, 2023

  finger-wagging Il Dito (2010); last but not least, the warm and brilliant UCSB graduate students who moderated ...