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American Beauty and Freedom
Throughout this entire book, I couldn’t help but make comparisons to American Beauty, the film directed by Sam Mendes. Freedom has been called the Great American Novel of our times because it is so real and disturbingly readable. When it … Continue reading
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What’s In A Name
Racism is defined as: “a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others”. It is … Continue reading
*sorry that mine keeps posting
I saw someone else recently posted about this, but I was also really intrigued by the fact that the book seemed to thrive off of the fact that the world was going to be ending. In both the movie (within … Continue reading
what is real?
“On today’s market, we find a whole series of products deprived of their malignant properties: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, beer without alcohol…And the list goes on: what about virtual sex as sex without sex, the Colin Powell doctrine … Continue reading
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Tagged Simulation, Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real!
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Saving the World…through music videos
I know we already talked about this in class…but I thought this would also be entertaining too. Much like Britney’s music video about the end of the world and orgies and so on, Madonna has a song very similar about … Continue reading
White Noise Response
The passage I chose from White Noise was from pages 218-219. It was an exchange between Murray and Jack. In short, they discussed car crashes, violence, and the evolution of how people are viewing these things when they are being … Continue reading
First Post: Movies, Books, Violence and Subjectivity
In the essay by Franzen, he stated that, “the novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read…”. People in this day and age are becoming less interested in what should be … Continue reading
