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...sees modern media as not linear but oneiric. "Don't you think that dreams and the Internet are similar?" asks Paprika. "They're both places where the repressed conscious mind vents." But the place where the detective will unlock his mystery is a movie palace, the dark cathedral where the communicants' separate obsessions become one dream on a giant screen. And the most fluid form of movies is animation. Paprika is both an argument for and a demonstration of animation's power to put us into a state of alert hypnosis. Watch the images that float by, the impulses that...
Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close-Evening represents perhaps the greatest diva round-up in modern movie history. Two of them, Redgrave and Streep, have even brought their daughters, Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer respectively, to the party. And the film's producers have thoughtfully added that very winsome diva-in-training, Claire Danes...
...Class of 2011 will have to wait a year to sit in on Alison Simmons’ popular class, Philosophy 8, “Introduction to the History of Early Modern Philosophy.” Simmons, the Professor of Philosophy who has been highly active within the curricular review, is taking a sabbatical for the 2007-2008 academic year...
Simmons will be spending the upcoming school year visiting New York University. She will be working on projects that explore early modern theories of consciousness, as well as conducting research on the chemical senses, such as taste...
...stands for is "a socialist/communist society," as stated in its manifesto, in a decidedly capitalist country. "The JCP is a boutique party, but it's the only political party in Japan that has a strong grassroots organization," says Lam. "In a way, the communists are probably the most modern political party in Japan." Despite holding just 18 of the 722 seats in the Diet, the JCP often functions as the only genuine opposition to politics-as-usual in Tokyo. Communist politicians have repeatedly uncovered damaging financial scandals in government-they're too far removed from power to be enmeshed...