Aesthetic Analysis: The Devil and the FeminineA short aesthetic study of women’s relation to the devil in the Belladonna of Sadness (film), Paradise Lost by John Milton (poem), The…Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
Ghost in the Shell (1995)- Identity, Essence, and HegelGhost in the Shell is the 1995 Japanese animated film directed by Mamoru Oshii. Based on a manga of the same name, Oshii manifests this…Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
Anarchist Poetry: Penis Envy by CrassPenis Envy- a theory regarding female psychosexual development in Freudian psychoanalytic theory that proposes that young girls feel…Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
Man Push Cart (2005)- Sisyphean NeorealismI grew up in an immigrant household in Chicago, schooling downtown and relying on public transportation to get anywhere. When you grow up…Jan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022
The Philosophy and Poetry behind Deathconsciousness“When we become known to Death, and Death known to us, we react as if we are the first; as if we were Adam in the Garden, and death a great…Jan 20, 2022Jan 20, 2022
Waking Life (2001)- The dream that animates philosophyRichard Linklater’s first animated film is a philosophical dreamscape. For those unfamiliar with Linklater, his independent spirit and…Jan 20, 2022Jan 20, 2022
Expressing the Inexpressible: Poetry and Philosophy in Film and Music“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through…Jan 13, 2022Jan 13, 2022
