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odinsblog · 7 months

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Dear President Biden,

We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding horrors in Israel and Palestine.

We ask that, as President of the United States, you call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and Israel before another life is lost. More than 5,000 people have been killed in the last week and a half – a number any person of conscience knows is catastrophic. We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

We urge your administration, and all world leaders, to honor all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the safe release of hostages. Half of Gaza’s two million residents are children, and more than two thirds are refugees and their descendants being forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to reach them.

We believe that the United States can play a vital diplomatic role in ending the suffering and we are adding our voices to those from the US Congress, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, The International Committee of The Red Cross, and so many others. Saving lives is a moral imperative. To echo UNICEF, “Compassion — and international law — must prevail.”

As of this writing more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza in the last 12 days — resulting in one child being killed every 15 minutes.

“Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes. Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines…. The humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion — and international law — must prevail.” – UNICEF spokesperson, James Elder

Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their loved ones around the world we are motivated by an unbending will to stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity and peace for all people – and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed.

We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we stood by and did nothing. As Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told UN News, “History is watching.”

Alia Shawkat

Alyssa Milano

Amanda Seales

Amber Tamblyn

America Ferrera

Andrew Garfield

Anoushka Shankar

Aria Mia Loberti

Ayo Edebiri

Bassam Tariq

Bassem Youssef

Cate Blanchett

Channing Tatum

Cherien Dabis

Darius Marder

David Cross

Dominique Fishback

Dominique Thorne

Elvira Lind

Farah Bsaiso

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Hasan Minhaj

Hend Sabry

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

James Schamus

Jeremy Strong

Jessica Chastain

Joaquin Phoenix

Jon Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Macklemore

Mahershala Ali

Margaret Cho

Mark Ruffalo

May Calamawy

Michael Malarkey

Michael Stipe

Michelle Wolf

Mo Amer

Oscar Isaac

Quinta Brunson

Ramy Youssef

Riz Ahmed

Rooney Mara

Rosario Dawson

Ryan Coogler

Sandra Oh

Sebastian Silva

Shailene Woodley

Shaka King

Susan Sarandon

Vic Mensa

Wallace Shawn

Wanda Sykes

👉🏿 https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-demands-gaza-israel-ceasefire-joaquin-phoenix-cate-blanchett-1235763646/

#politics #palestine #gaza #israel #ceasefire #war crimes #hamas ≠ palestine #genocide #collective punishment #israel is an apartheid state #never again #humanitarian aid #benjamin netanyahu is a war criminal #bds #boycott divest sanction #never again to anyone

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luckydiorxoxo · 7 months

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A group of 58 prominent artists and advocates in the entertainment industry have signed an open letter to President Biden, urging for a call for a ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. See the full list below:

Riz Ahmed

Mahershala Ali

Mo Amer

Cate Blanchett

Quinta Brunson

Farah Bsaiso

Jessica Chastain

Margaret Cho

David Cross

Cherien Dabis

Rosario Dawson

Ayo Edebiri

Fatima Farheen Mirza

America Ferrera

Dominique Fishback

Andrew Garfield

Ilana Glazer

Oscar Isaac

Shaka King

Elvira Lind

Aria Mia Loberti

Macklemore

Michael Malarkey

Rooney Mara

Darius Marder

Vic Mensa

Alyssa Milano

Hasan Minhaj

Indya Moore

Sandra Oh

Joaquin Phoenix

Mark Ruffalo

Hend Sabry

Susan Sarandon

James Schamus

Amanda Seales

Anoushka Shankar

Alia Shawkat

Wallace Shawn

Sebastian Silva

Jon Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Jeremy Strong

Wanda Sykes

Michael Stipe

Amber Tamblyn

Bassam Tariq

Channing Tatum

Dominique Thorne

Michelle Wolf

Shailene Woodley

Ramy Youssef

#gaza #Israel #Biden #hollywood

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slicedblackolives · 7 months

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List of celebrities that have signed letters in “solidarity” with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians

and the list of celebrities that have signed a letter supporting a ceasefire in Gaza:

Adam McKay

Alfonso Cuarón

Alia Shawkat

Alyssa Milano

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Seales

Amber Tamblyn

America Ferrera

Andrew Garfield

Ani DiFranco

Aminé

Anoushka Shankar

Aria Mia Loberti

ASAP Nast

Ayo Edebiri

Bassam Tariq

Bassem Youssef

Belly

Bonnie Wright

Boots Riley

Caroline Polachek

Cate Blanchett

Channing Tatum

Charm La’Donna

Cherien Dabis

Darius Marder

David Cross

David Oyelowo

Deb Never

Dev Hynes

Dina Shihabi

Diplo

Dominic Cooper

Dominique Fishback

Dominique Thorne

Dua Lipa

El-P

Elvira Lind

Elyanna

Farah Bsaiso

Farida Khelfa

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Florence Pugh

Hasan Minhaj

Hend Sabry

Ilana Glazer

Indya Moore

James Schamus

Jay Shetty

Jai Courtney

Jeremy Strong

Jessica Chastain

Jessie Buckley

Jessie Williams

Joaquin Phoenix

John Cusack

Jon Stewart

Kathryn Grody

Kaytranada

Kehlani

Killer Mike

Kristen Stewart

Lauren Jauregui

Lena Waithe

Macklemore

Mandy Patinkin

Mahershala Ali

Margaret Cho

Mark Ruffalo

May Calamawy

Megan Boone

Michael Malarkey

Michael Moore

Michael Shannon

Michael Stipe

Michelle Wolf

Miguel

Mo Amer

Mousa Kraish

Natalia Cordova

Natalie Merchant

Oscar Isaac

Quinta Brunson

Rachel McAdams

Rachel Sennott

Ramy Youssef

Raveena Aurora

Riz Ahmed

Rooney Mara

Rosario Dawson

Rosie O’Donnell

Rowan Blanchard

Ryan Coogler

Sandra Oh

Sebastian Silva

Shailene Woodley

Shaka King

SimiHaze

Simon Helberg

Stephanie Suganami

Susan Sarandon

Taylour Paige

Tommy Genesis

Tony Kushner

V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Vic Mensa

Victoria Monét

Wallace Shawn

Wanda Sykes

Yara Shahidi

Zoe Lister Jones

I wanted to include them both but there were hundreds of celebrities who came out in support of Israel.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #anyway here’s who you ignore

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northwindow · 2 years

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random acts

a chaotic, uncertain, and disorderly syllabus [x]

why fish don't exist & “the eleventh word” by lulu miller

book and essay by npr journalist lulu miller on the search for order in a world of chaos. miller was inspired by the story of naturalist david starr jordan, whose collection of carefully classified and labeled fish specimens was scrambled in an earthquake in 1906. while researching his quest to rebuild his life's work she discovers surprises about his life that yield insights about her own search for order and meaning. “the eleventh word” follows her family after the onset of the covid-19 pandemic and the publication of why fish don’t exist, when her young son learns the very word “fish” that she attempts to complicate in her book.

chaos: the making of a new science by james gleick

the first popular science book on chaos theory aimed at non-physicists and non-mathematicians, published in the 1980s by science reporter james gleick. presented chronologically, chaos begins with the story of meteorologist edward lorenz's experiments with a weather simulator and expands to cover the ubiquity of chaos in fields like astrophysics, ecology, economics, geometry, and biology; as well as the ways the study of chaos has altered scientific paradigms.

"the lava lamps that help keep the internet secure" by tom scott

video in which youtuber tom scott visits the web security company cloudflare, where a camera photographs the changing patterns in a row of lava lamps to generate unpredictable values for their cryptography. in another office, a receipt printer generates outputs such as magic 8-ball responses, mazes, and sudokus from their random data.

"just randomness" by michael marder

essay in real life magazine by philosopher michael marder about ethics and algorithmic decision-making, in which he argues that algorithms should not recuse us from making fundamental decisions about justice. by trying to use randomness to create fairer systems, marder writes that we are prone to the pitfalls of perceived randomness-- particularly at the hands of the learned gender, race, and class biases absorbed by artificial intelligence.

"what does chaos theory have to do with art?" by dean wilcox

paper by culture writer dean wilcox on the connections between chaos theory in physics and image/process-driven work in art. wilcox uses the plays of robert wilson and the films of david lynch, both of which eschew predetermined narrative structures, as artistic corollaries for chaos science. for an analysis on art and entropy focusing on the work of many 1960s artists and architects, see robert smithson's "the new monuments and entropy." (thank you to @vis-uh-vis for the suggestion!)

"divination and game theory" by john henrich

short section of evolutionary biologist john henrich's book the secret of our success, which as a whole explores various ways that cultural evolution may advantage the human species. he touches on several examples of how random divination techniques, such as augury or osteomancy, are an evolutionary boon in situations where random decisions are valuable. for more thoughts see "paul the octopus' death and other thoughts on animal oracles" by alice dos reis from the dutch socio-political research project, schemas of uncertainty (many other interesting pieces here too!)

"the elusive apple of my i," "consciousness = thinking", "a courteous crossing of words," & the final pages of i am a strange loop by douglas hofstadter

a selection from cognitive scientist douglas hofstader's book on consciousness, i am a strange loop. these parts are dedicated to pondering how our coherent sense of self is established in spite of the chaotic "mass of seething and churning” at the level of cellular structures or subatomic particles. (note: brief references are made to concepts from elsewhere in the book, notably epi from ch. 7 and careenium from ch. 3 in the full text. thanks to @calliopecantaloupes for pointing me to this!)

alan watts on the myopic view of the world

lecture by theological writer and speaker alan watts on the common western perception of the universe as chaotic, alien, and unsympathetic. he explains how we might expand our "myopic" view of life, which focuses on our individual egos and voluntary actions, to see a larger order of magnitude in which the self and environment depend harmoniously on each other.

#syllabi #header image is by alison filice

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maxxxines · 7 months

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celebs who signed an open letter to biden calling for a ceasefire

Riz Ahmed

Mahershala Ali

Mo Amer

Cate Blanchett

Quinta Brunson

Farah Bsaiso

Jessica Chastain

Margaret Cho

David Cross

Cherien Dabis

Rosario Dawson

Ayo Edebiri

Fatima Farheen Mirza

America Ferrera

Dominique Fishback

Andrew Garfield

Ilana Glazer

Oscar Isaac

Shaka King

Elvira Lind

Aria Mia Loberti

Macklemore

Michael Malarkey

Rooney Mara

Darius Marder

Vic Mensa

Alyssa Milano

Hasan Minhaj

Indya Moore

Sandra Oh

Joaquin Phoenix

Mark Ruffalo

Hend Sabry

Susan Sarandon

James Schamus

Amanda Seales

Anoushka Shankar

Alia Shawkat

Wallace Shawn

Sebastian Silva

Jon Stewart

Kristen Stewart

Jeremy Strong

Wanda Sykes

Michael Stipe

Amber Tamblyn

Bassam Tariq

Channing Tatum

Dominique Thorne

Michelle Wolf

Shailene Woodley

Ramy Youssef

+ more have signed, full list here

#copied this from a tweet mainly just wanted to have the list saved for myself #just to know who doesn’t completely suck #save

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kvtnisseverdeen · 7 months

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while there are many celebrities who stand with colonizers and are quite literally supporting a genocide, here’s a list of celebrities who have come together and wrote a letter in support of palestine calling for an immediate ceasefire and allowance of aid into gaza (yes, israel is currently blocking all aid from getting into gaza)

the following celebrities have used their platform and privilege for the better:

Alia Shawkat Alyssa Milano Amanda Seales Amber Tamblyn America Ferrera Andrew Garfield Anoushka Shankar Aria Mia Loberti Ayo Edebiri Bassam Tariq Bassem Youssef Cate Blanchett Channing Tatum Cherien Dabis Darius Marder David Cross Dominique Fishback Dominique Thorne Elvira Lind Farah Bsaiso Fatima Farheen Mirza Hasan Minhaj Hend Sabry Ilana Glazer Indya Moore  James Schamus Jeremy Strong Jessica Chastain Joaquin Phoenix Jon Stewart Kristen Stewart Macklemore Mahershala Ali Margaret Cho Mark Ruffalo May Calamawy Michael Malarkey Michael Stipe Michelle Wolf Mo Amer Oscar Isaac Quinta Brunson Ramy Youssef Riz Ahmed Rooney Mara Rosario Dawson Ryan Coogler Sandra Oh Sebastian Silva Shailene Woodley Shaka King Susan Sarandon Vic Mensa  Wallace Shawn Wanda Sykes

#so proud of all of them #thank you for your support #can’t believe it’s come to this #like we are actually thanking people to speak up against genocide #because so many people are FOR genocide!!!!#unbelievable #palestine #pro palestine #anti israel #anti Zionism

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scotianostra · 2 years

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Happy Birthday to the super talented Scottish virtuoso percussionist. Evelyn Glennie who turned 57 today.

Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, a farmer who was also an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician.

She was a promising student of piano and clarinet as a child, and she was blessed with perfect pitch, the ability to identify or sing a note by ear. At age eight, Glennie started complaining of sore ears and hearing loss. Her condition steadily deteriorated, and by age 11 she needed a hearing aid, which she found distracting and later discarded. She continued to play music and found she could perceive the quality of a note by the level of the reverberations she could feel in her hands, wrists, lower body, and feet. Glennie counts as her major influences cellist Jacqueline du Pré and pianist Glenn Gould.

When she was 12, Glennie saw a schoolmate playing percussion. She started taking lessons, and, she told People, “… it felt right.” She graduated with honours from London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Music in 1985. It wasn’t easy for her to get into the academy she explains;

“To pursue my dream, I had to challenge the entry system for the Royal Academy of Music in London after they declined my first audition. They couldn’t quite see how a professional orchestra would hire a deaf person. I insisted on being judged on musical capability alone and not only convinced them to accept my application but help change the admission policy of musical institutions across the UK.”

She claims her deafness kept her from being caught up by social distractions and made her a better student, but she also realized it affected her ability to play in an orchestra, so she set her sights on becoming a soloist. In 1985 she made her professional debut; the following year she left for Japan to study the five-octave marimba for a year. Glennie’s first decade as a professional solo performer was filled with milestones: first performance of a new percussion concerto, first time an orchestra had performed with a solo percussionist, first solo percussion performance at a festival or venue. In 1990 she met Greg Malcagni, a recording engineer, and the two wed four years later.

Glennie tours extensively and exhaustively. She plays more than 100 concerts each year and has appeared across five continents. She plays on 20 to 50 instruments during each performance, “bounding,” as Michael Walsch wrote in Time, “from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete.” A Washington Post critic was almost as impressed by Glennie’s physical show in concert–which he called the “Evelyn Glennie Workout”–as he was by “the subtle gradations of sound and colour she brings to every phrase.” In addition to the details of her music and instruments, Glennie pays attention to the non-musical details of her shows, performing in colourful, theatrical costumes and with thematically designed sets and lights. Because she feels the music through her feet, she prefers to play barefoot. She says

“I can hear through my whole body”

Evelyn is a supporter of the Aberdeenshire language Doric and a campaigner for people with disabilities for which she says

‘We need to stop boxing up disabilities and trying to roll out one-fits-all measures for widening access”

Glennie also composed some of the music for the excellent film Sound of Metal directed by Darius Marder. She is a prolific composer for the library music company Audio Network.

#Scotland #scottish #percussionist.#musician #multitalented #happy birhtday

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angelicseven · 1 year

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jordan ✧･ﾟ☄️･ﾟ✧

23. black. he/they/ask.

full about below the cut !

⌦ basic! ## name: jordan

## age: 23

## birthday: october 30

## pronouns: he/they/ask

## gender: gnc transmasc

## sexuality: bisexual

## ethnicity: black

## nationality: american

⌦ mental!

i am autistic, and i have bpd, and did. i'm brainweird in other ways, but these are the three things i consider the most important to share, since they impact my life in the biggest way, and i post about them quite often.

⌦ system!

## sys name: chiron

## type: pf-did

## active: ~25

## total: 100+ recorded

⌦ boundaries!

## dms: yes

## flirting /p: moots only

## flirting /r: moots only

## teasing: ask

## venting: no

interests ✧･ﾟ☄️･ﾟ✧

(bolded = active interest, italicized = special interest)

⌦ media

atlanta (fx), bad girls club, big brother, community, euphoria, girlfriends, grey's anatomy, it's always sunny in philadelphia, LOST, malcolm in the middle, on my block, one on one, scrubs, shameless, spop, station 19, stranger things, the game

⌦ music

autumn!, bktherula, blackpink, britney spears, childish gambino, iayze, ice spice, izaya tiji, jhene aiko, jvcki wai, lil uzi vert, lil tecca, lil wayne, loona, megan thee stallion, mitski, my chemical romance, nsync, one direction, pinkpantheress, playboi carti, rico nasty, rihanna, slayyyter, slump6s, sofaygo, sza, the weeknd, tinashe, trippie redd, v.v lightbody, vonte*, yeat, zayn

( i do not condone the actions of every single person on this list! music is music it's not that deep to me lmao)

⌦ games

animal crossing, cities, skylines, fall guys, grand theft auto v, minecraft, roblox, stardew valley, the sims (3&4),

comforts ✧･ﾟ☄️･ﾟ✧

⌦ characters

alex karev, andrew deluca, arnaz ballard, ben warren, breanna barnes, callie torres, carla espinosa, cassie howard, charlie kelly, charlie pace, christopher turk, claire littleton, cristina yang, delilah alves, darius epps, earn marks, elliot reid, fiona gallagher, ian gallagher, jackson avery, jo wilson, joe goldberg, john dorian, kate austen, kevin ball, lexie grey, love quinn, lucas sinclair, lynn searcy, maddy perez, malcolm wilkerson, mark sloan, maya bishop, michael dawson, miranda bailey, nancy wheeler, sawyer ford, sayid jarrah, sun-hwa kwon, veronica fisher, vic hughes

⌦ ships

admelia, areanna, benley, brittannie, calzona, charmac, gallavich, goldquinn, japril, jolex, jdox, jdturkcarla, kateclaire, katesaw, marder, mckassie, meradd, merder, mertina, mikejin, rules, sawyid, trobed, troynnie, slexie + a bunch more. everyone is polyamorous and gay in all of my interests :pray:

BYF ✧･ﾟ☄️･ﾟ✧

i reclaim the f slur, n word and r slur and don't tag them

i block often

anon will always be turned off because it triggers my paranoia LMAOOOOOO

⌦ dni

(bodily) under 16, endogenic "systems" and their supporters, proship and anything adjacent to that, terfs/swerfs/etc, frequent lgbt discourser (no one cares it's 2023), idk i'll just block if you rub me the wrong way/are annoying tbh.

⌦ links

discord: halogen#2050

twitter

spotify

sys blog

sys carrd

#jordan speaks #pinned

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mmagpye · 1 year

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“In Michael Marder’s words, “recognizing a “valid “other” in plants is also beginning to recognize that vegetal other within us.””

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morganarchived · 2 years

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a rough list of favourite films i’ve watched (so far)

with thanks to strangers from the internet and my dad’s wicked collection

more detailed posts to come (when i get around to it)

generally rated from favourites onwards

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry (2004)

You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay (2017)

Metropolis, Rintaro (2001)

Over the Garden Wall, Nate Cash (2014)

Sound of Metal, Darius Marder (2019)

Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston (1990)

Jackass Forever, Jeff Tremaine (2022)

House of Gucci, Ridley Scott (2021)

10 Things I Hate About You, Gil Junger (1999)

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson (2009)

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, Beyoncé & Ed Burke (2019)

West Side Story, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (1961)

The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Jeff Feuerzeig (2005)

Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann (1996)

Once, John Carney (2007)

Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata (1988)

Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki (1986)

Kiki’s Delivery Service, Hayao Miyazaki (1989)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki (1984)

Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki (1997)

Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki (2001)

Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz (1986)

The Last Unicorn, Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. (1982)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki (1997)

The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo (1988)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (2010)

Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)

The Batman, Matt Reeves (2022)

Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa (1952)

I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman (2020)

Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto (1973)

I, Tonya, Craig Gillespie (2017)

It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt (2012)

Kill Bill: Vol 1, Quentin Tarantino (2003)

Kill Bill: Vol 2, Quentin Tarantino (2004)

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino (2009)

What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus (2015)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller (2015)

Monster, Patty Jenkins (2003)

Charlie Countryman, Fredrik Bond (2013)

Whiplash, Damien Chazelle (2014)

The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet (2003)

Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky (2000)

Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (1994)

Pink Floyd: The Wall, Alan Parker (1982)

The Nightmare Before Christmas, Henry Selick (1993)

The Dark Crystal, Frank Oz & Jim Henson (1982)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rodney Rothman & Peter Ramsey & Bob Persichetti (2018)

Parasite, Bong Joon-ho (2019)

Jackass 4.5, Jeff Tremaine (2022)

The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (2006)

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)

Nightmare Alley, Guillermo del Toro (2021)

Knives Out, Rian Johnson (2019)

It Follows, David Robert Mitchell (2014)

The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann (2013)

Ghost Stories, Andy Nyman & Jeremy Dyson (2017)

Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder (2011)

The Devil All the Time, Antonio Campos (2020)

Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve (2013)

Goodnight Mommy, Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz (2014)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle (2007)

Shoah, Claude Lanzmann (1985)

Ravenous, Robin Aubert (2017)

The Last Duel, Ridley Scott (2021)

Dave Made a Maze, Bill Watterson (2017)

If Anything Happens I Love You, Will McCormack & Michael Govier (2020)

Jojo Rabbit, Taiki Waititi (2019)

Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-ho (2003)

Midsommar, Ari Aster (2019)

Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach (2019)

The Fly, David Cronenberg (1986)

Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson (2015)

Hereditary, Ari Aster (2018)

Creep, Patrick Brice (2014)

Se7en, David Fincher (1995)

Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro (2006)

Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson (2018)

A Close Shave, Nick Park (1995)

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kurtlukiraz · 7 months

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Bu sene 73.'sü düzenlendi Yönetmenler Birliği (DGA) Ödülleri'nin sahipleri belli oldu. Mükafat sezonunun sanatı kalanında benzer biçimdeydi Chloe Zhao En İyi Direktör ödülüne layık görülürken, Kathryn Bigelow'dan sonra Yönetmenler Birliği Ödülleri'nde bu başarıya ulaşan ikinci hanım sinemacı oldu. Zhao, işletmenin favori konumunda olduğu Oscar En İyi Direktör yarışında fark kapanmayacak bir halde açılmış oldu. Ödüllerin tamamına aşağıdan ulaşabilirsiniz. En İyi Direktör: Chloé Zhao – Göçebe Ülkesi En İyi Direktör (İlk Film): Darius Marder – Metalin Sesi En İyi Direktör (Biyografi): Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw – Yer Mantarı Avcıları En İyi Direktör (TV/Hüzünlü): Lesli Linka Glatter – Vatan En İyi Direktör (TV/Güldürü): Susanna Fogel - Uçuş Görevlisi En İyi Direktör (TV/Mini Dizi): Scott Frank – Vezir Gambiti

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earaercircular · 9 months

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Philosopher Lisa Doeland wonders in 'Apocalypsofie': extinction, how do you introduce that well?

New Yorkers flee a tsunami in Roland Emmerich's film The Day After Tomorrow, 2004

In an intensely polluted world that will never get clean again, we must try to get it right. How? Philosopher Lisa Doeland comes up with an honest, searching answer in her book “Apocalypsofie”.

When I'm about ten pages into her new book “Apocalypsofie” [1], I wonder whether Lisa Doeland would have children. Whoever describes the climate crisis bluntly as an apocalypse does not have a rosy picture of the future. Why would you then even start having children?

For Doeland, an apocalyptic is not the same as a doomsayer, it soon becomes clear. The Dutch philosopher may not be an ecomodernist who puts all her hope in technological innovation, but she is not a prophet of doom either. She just wants to avoid the polarisation between doomsayers and ecomodernists with her "apocalypsophy" (that term is her invention). After all, both pessimism and optimism give us an illusion of distance: the future will be bad or good. But, Doeland subtly observes, it's not about the future, the downfall has already started. Her apocalypsophy is a manual for how we can still live in the full awareness of that harsh truth.

What is possible

“After a century and a half of industrial production, mass consumption and thoughtless discarding, the remains of this process are piling up visibly and invisibly, and instead of trying to hide them away and start with a clean slate, it is up to us to learn to live in and with the debris. How do you do that?”

Doeland hesitantly answers that crucial question in her book. It is only at the last chapter that readers get a little insight into what they have to do. Much more attention is paid in Apocalypsophie to the analysis of the problem and of wrong solutions. Where do the ruins come from? Why was the Club of Rome[2] never listened to? What fantasies lull us further into ruin? The philosopher looks for an answer dialoguing with big names of fellow philosophers such as Jacques Lacan[3], Bruno Latour[4], Jacques Derrida[5], Walter Benjamin[6], or living epigones in the current eco-movement such as Donna Haraway[7] or Andreas Malm[8].

But also lesser-known (and therefore all the more interesting) philosophy is accessible in Doeland's story, such as the work of Srećko Horvat[9] (After the apocalypse), Roy Scranton[10] (Learning to die in the anthropocene), Michael Marder[11] (Dump philosophy), Anna Tsing[12] (The mushroom at the end of the world), Val Plumwood[13] (The eye of the crocodile).

Doeland takes up the warnings of Derrida, Benjamin and Horvat: we are already living in the catastrophe, the world is already a dump, don't be fooled. She takes constructive advice from Tsing, Haraway and Plumwood (coincidentally, the female thinkers?): don't fear the future, but look around and learn to see what's possible.

Completely in line with the etymological meaning of 'apocalypse', Doeland sees the ecological crisis as a revelation: not of a grand vision about the end of 'the' world, but the revelation of the insight that many worlds have long since ended. The main appeal of this book is: don't think it's five to twelve or that we can still be saved, but look around you and see that the mass extinction (of insects and other animal species, of indigenous cultures, of pre-industrial societies ...) is taking place worldwide.

What can we do with that insight? According to Doeland, it protects us against what she calls dangerous fantasies: the energy transition, for example, or the circular economy that hides the real problem from our view with the promise of waste as a raw material. That real problem, says Doeland, is the capitalist need for eternal growth. And the circular economy only makes it bigger: 'The belief in the recyclability of things means that we no longer view waste as a problem, as the dark side of our disposable consumer society, but as part of a more or less natural cycle, so we don't have to worry too much about it.'

Undead waste

Destination is strict. Electric cars and solar panels are not a solution, they are part of the problem. Concepts such as 'energy transition' and 'green energy' continue to hide polluting processes of extraction and combustion. Batteries, plastic and car tires not only have to be produced, but also discarded after decay. This is how the machine of capitalism produces piles of waste that cannot be digested: undead waste, as Doeland calls it, huge piles of e-waste and plastic that haunt us and future generations.

Surprisingly, Doeland is equally sceptical about rewilding projects and veganism, if they are based on a false ideal of untouched nature or moral purity. After all, nature not only includes trees and oceans, but also nuclear waste under the soil and plastic in the sea. The fantasy of nature as a pristine canvas against which man can develop cultures is at the root of the capitalist exploitation of the earth.

Even so, the desire for a clear moral line between what is edible (plants) and what is not (animals) rests on a bad fantasy. All food is sacred, says Doeland together with ecofeminist Plumwood. And that all consumption of food is consumption of suffering is a thought she borrows from anarchist Alexis Shotwell[14]. Because everything on earth is so intensely intertwined with everything, people can no longer shut themselves off from all that is bad: plastic is in breast milk, lead in our blood, soy milk is produced industrially. Moral purity is an illusion.

Cloudy ethics

In an intensely polluted world that can never be made clean again, we must try to get it right. And we can do that well or less well. Unfortunately, even for Doeland, it is not always clear what that means in practice. She herself gives the example of diapers (so yes, she has children!). She opted for washable instead of disposable diapers, but is not sure whether that was the best choice. Was it worth all the energy?

“You must realise that you can never do everything right.” The answer to the question “How to live amidst the ruins?” is unsatisfying, but fair. For me, the most difficult challenge is not to keep myself ongoing confronted with the realisation of millions of climate refugees or the destroyed ecosystems and biodiversity, but rather: 'how do I raise children in this world?'

British Charlie Gardner[15], one of the founders of Scientist Rebellion[16], left the academy because he could no longer bring science to auditoriums full of young people, condemning them powerlessly to a bleak future. Lying to the next generation is not an option, so what do we tell them? The book Apocalypsophie is full of beautiful metaphors and intriguing provocations, but how do I translate them into a life with children? Shall I teach them 'how to get extincted properly', as Doeland sharply puts it? Is there still room for humour and happiness, for joie de vivre and fun? I suspect that Lisa Doeland assumes so, because she has chosen parenthood just like I did. But frankly talking? I'm not very sure.

Source

Katrien Schaubroeck, Filosofe Lisa Doeland vraagt zich in ‘Apocalypsofie’ af: uitsterven, hoe doe je dat goed?, in: De Strandaard, 5-08-2023, https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230803_94888668

[1] Lisa Doeland: Apocalypsofie. Over recycling, groene groei en andere gevaarlijke fantasieën. (Apocalypsophy. About recycling, green growth and other dangerous fantasies) , Ten Have, 2023 https://www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl/boek/apocalypsofie/

[2] The Club of Rome is a nonprofit, informal organization of intellectuals and business leaders whose goal is a critical discussion of pressing global issues. The Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe. It stimulated considerable public attention in 1972 with the first report to the Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth. Since 1 July 2008, the organisation has been based in Winterthur, Switzerland.

[3] Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris, from 1953 to 1981, and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits. His work made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself.

[4] Bruno Latour (22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.He was especially known for his work in the field of science and technology studies (STS).After teaching at the École des Mines de Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation) from 1982 to 2006, he became professor at Sciences Po Paris (2006–2017), where he was the scientific director of the Sciences Po Medialab. He retired from several university activities in 2017.He was also a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics.

[5] Jacques Derrida (15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in numerous texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disowned the word "postmodernity"

[6] Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and Neo-Kantianism, Benjamin made enduring and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was associated with the Frankfurt School, and also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was also related to German political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her first marriage to Benjamin's cousin Günther Anders.

[7] Donna J. Haraway is an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies. She has also contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism. Her work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics

[8] Andreas Malm (born 1976 or 1977) is a Swedish author and an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University. He is on the editorial board of the academic journal Historical Materialism, and has been described as a Marxist. Naomi Klein, who quoted Malm in her book This Changes Everything, describes him as "one of the most original thinkers on the subject" of climate change.

[9] Srećko Horvat (born 28 February 1983) is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Jacobin, Newsweek and The New York Times.

[10] Roy Scranton (born 1976) is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His essays, journalism, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Dissent, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boston Review. His first book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene was published by City Lights. His novel War Porn was released by Soho Press in August 2016. It was called "One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years" by Sam Sacks in The Wall Street Journal. He co-edited Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame, where he is the director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative

[11] Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He works in the phenomenological tradition of Continental philosophy, environmental thought, and political philosophy.

[12] Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952) is an American anthropologist. She is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018, she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

[13] Val Plumwood (11 August 1939 – 29 February 2008) was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as an independent scholar, she held positions at the University of Tasmania, North Carolina State University, the University of Montana, and the University of Sydney, and at the time of her death was Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University.[5] She is included in Routledge's Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment (2001).

[14] Alexis Shotwell (b. 1974) is a Canadian philosopher, currently employed as Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where she is cross-appointed with the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies and the Department of Philosophy. Educated at University of California, Santa Cruz (PhD), Dalhousie University (MA) and McGill University (BA), Shotwell has also taught at Laurentian University.

[15] Dr. Charlie Gardner’s professional identity cannot be summed up by a simple job title: he is, simultaneously, a lecturer and researcher in conservation science at the University of Kent, a practitioner and an activist with Extinction Rebellion. To him, these are not separate roles. They strengthen each other in his determination to align science with activism in order to save our planet. We spoke with Charlie about his unique approach to science and the multiple ways in which he uses his work life to make a real-world impact for all our sakes.

[16] Scientist Rebellion is an international scientists' environmentalist group that campaigns for degrowth, climate justice and more effective climate change mitigation. It is a sister organisation to Extinction Rebellion. It is a network of academics that tries to raise awareness by engaging in non-violent civil disobedience.

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