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Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Typewriters and the modern woman

The typewriter thing made me think of a musical called “Thoroughly Modern Millie” about a woman from a small town in the 20s who moves to
New York to become a stenographer.  Well, Wikipedia summarizes it well:
Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City to marry […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

New Springsteen CD

Bruce Springsteen’s latest CD was released today. It’s called, “Magic.” Reviews say its his most political cd yet, largely about the Bush administration. His last CD, in response to 9/11, was called “The Rising.” Hmmmmm. First “The Rising,” now “Magic.” Funny how those old Hebrew notions keep coming back to haunt us. […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Typewriters & Women

A section of the typewriter article found on Wikipedia that was particularly interesting…
When Remington first started marketing typewriters, the company assumed the machine would not be used for composing but for transcribing dictation, and that the person typing would be a woman. Flowers were printed on the casing of early models to make the machine […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Bionic Imaginary

According to the NYT the “Bionic Woman” was the most watched show on Wednesday night. In our current cultural moment this makes a lot of sense. The paternal symbolic is in deep trouble. Father/son Bush have emasculated the US in a war that we can’t win, with a country/society that, like Dracula, […]

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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Moonlight

Here’s a review of tonight’s first episode of Moonlight, the new vampire tv show. Notice the vampire’s assistant is a female web journalist. Notice that her name is Beth, a letter of the alphabet, as in Aleph, Beth. Notice the coupling of the symbolic (rule book — the law and writing technology) with the imaginary […]

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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Illusions to Sex in Dracula (movie)

My favorite part of the movie is the first scene with Jonathan and Mina. They are sitting in a gazebo like area, holding hands and facing each other. Then, the fade out effect is done with a shrinking black circle. This cuts to a tunnel with a train going through it.  Although, we do not […]

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Monday, September 24th, 2007

Moonlight

Hey ya’ll! Since “premier” week is right around the corner I was browsing the network’s internet sites, completely excited that the return of Grey’s Anantomy is less than a week away, when I noticed a new show called “Moonlight.” The description it gives about the show is ”When a series of vampire-style murders plague LA, immortal investigator Mick […]

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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Who’s Your Daddy?

Just read this in the NYT. It mentions Lacan briefly, but is most valuable for what it suggests about the relation between fatherhood and knowledge, i.e. the symbolic. Also a very good re-thinking of Freud’s value to our culture.
September 23, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor
Who’s Your Daddy?
By MARK EDMUNDSON
Batesville, Va.
SIGMUND Freud died 68 years ago today, and […]

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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Eastern Promises

I saw Eastern Promises this weekend, and as I might have guessed, given it was directed by David Cronenberg — the Director of The Fly and other amazing films — it is firmly rooted in the same unconscious cultural material that concerns us in this class. I won’t go into too many details because I […]

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Friday, September 21st, 2007

Ultimate MILF Anthem

Hey guys! So I was driving home earlier, listening to the radio and unconsciously singing along. As a new song started, I immediately recognized the beat, and the lyrics naturally came to mind. I then realized that the song was “Stacy’s Mom” by Fountains of Wayne. I’m sure most of you have heard it, but […]

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