#prism raymond

[acircusfullofdemons]

Ref Sheets 3/?: DreamSet Circus Edition!

*circus music playing at full volume* Unlike some of my other ocs, these guys don't really have a "story" per say. DSC is mostly just a fun slice-of-life type thing. I dunno it's like Spongebob the characters are just put into situations.

Only two didn't make the cut this time, those being Jason (illusionist & acrobat) and Liam (strongman). idk. i just don't know what they look like ya'll im sorry. also technically Calypso should be here since he's the new ringleader but. i mean. we all know what Cali looks like right. RIGHT?!

Anyway. I won't typically talk about design notes/explain the designs on these posts (there might be separate posts if I got shit to say) BUT the circus doesn't have an official uniform or anything since everyone does different stuff a set uniform would make their job harder/difficult. So, instead, everyone wears red! It's like...the official color of DreamSet. Blue is often a secondary color, and you can probably guess but that's because of Isaac & Reagan. Those that wear blue are closer to Reagan (...not saying those that don't dislike her or anything -- she's the circus mom -- they're just fine with having only red in their outfit).

🏷 : @burningivy @shrimpnymph

( 🌈 ) Prism Raymond (she/her): lights & helps with costume design

( 🦋 ) Clairette Raymond (she/her): acrobat

( 🐾 ) Phyn Raymond (he/him): lion tamer

( 🔮 ) Jamie Monroe (she/her): psychic/medium

( 🦯 ) Lucy Fisher (she/her): knife thrower

( 🃏 ) Guinevere Van Doreen (she/her): card tricks

( 🎲 ) Dice Van Doreen (she/her): card tricks

( 🎩 ) Bethany Crowley Raymond (she/her): not actually at the circus, host of a talk show

( 📰 ) James Porter (he/him): not actually part of the circus, he's sort of a reviewer/critic of it instead

( 🗡 ) Delilah Lazzari (she/her): knife thrower, dancer

( 🎀 ) Diana Harding (she/they): costume designer, dancer

( 🦁 ) Reagan Morningstar (she/they): lion tamer

( 🐎 ) Isaac Raymond (he/they): owner, ringleader

#paraportal #character design #ocs #original characters #circus #circus ocs #demons #demon ocs #fae #luka.txt #lukas circus oddities #luka.png #console: phantasmagoria #game: dreamset circus #prism raymond #clairette raymond #phyn raymond #jamie monroe #lucy fisher #guinevere van doreen #dice van doreen #bethany crowley raymond #james porter #delilah lazzari #diana harding #reagan morningstar #isaac raymond #itll be a lil bit before the next ref sheet post. probably. #madd art #ref sheets

[nicklloydnow]

“1980's Gentleman Jim introduced the Bloggs, a couple trying to make their way amid the trials and tribulations of the working class day-to-day, envisioning a life beyond their station. Though given a tough go at it, the Bloggs — inspired by Briggs' similarly-surnamed parents — persevered, their story as silly as it was heartbreaking, pushed on, almost, by Briggs' playful illustrations.

This was a multi-hyphenate creator who lent himself to social realism, capturing the gritty real lives of everyday people; that his prism was whimsical watercolour in children's picturebooks made his work all the more accessible. No example can be better than the film adaptation of his 1982 work When the Wind Blows.

Emerging from a period of Cold War mudslinging that threatened to hit devastating critical mass, When the Wind Blows confronts the well-meaning Bloggs with the unspeakable horrors of nuclear conflict.

It's an unflinching piece, brimming not with political fury but cold truth. Briggs doesn't imagine humanity emerging from the rubble of devastation to rebuild a better world. The landscape is rendered a scorched wasteland, the queasy smell of burning flesh carried by the wind. Propaganda is puppetry, or so the moral goes; nobody will survive the bomb, not even the harmless grannies pottering about in their allotments.

(…)

Fiction speculating on the impending nuclear holocaust is frightening because it isn't outside the realm of belief. I can't imagine what it might've been like to see something like When the Wind Blows back in the late-'80s, when tensions with the USSR surged, Reagan denouncing the Russians as an “evil empire,” and the doomsday clock ticked towards an early curtain call. But of course, it rushed back to mind — as with Threads, and indeed The Day After, seen by 100 million Americans when it premiered in 1983 — in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, with Putin ordering his nuclear forces on high alert, and Russian state media sabre rattling with the threat of ICBMs. (Christ, you'd think climate change was enough.)”

“As a full blown antiwar broadside, When The Wind Blows is hugely effective and deeply affecting. The sheer ordinariness of the old couple and the utter devastation that is visited on their world by the nuclear strike means the horror really hits home.

(…)

Directed by Jimmy Murakami and boasting a quality soundtrack that embraces everything from David Bowie to Roger Waters and even Squeeze, this remains one of the most emotionally draining “cartoons” you’ll ever see. Unleavened by any real humour, it’s bleak but strangely beautiful.”

#when the wind blows #raymond briggs #murakami #jimmy murakami #nuclear war #wwiii #david bowie #roger waters

[bergeronprocess]

I dusted off my Animal Crossing New Horizons game after some time and discovered that Raymond moved in! He's quite a character lol.

I also found a bunch of cute Pretty Cure outfits on the custom design search and now I've outfitted myself to look like Cure Prism (as much as possible since the game has NO long hair options lol)

Now I'm working on Nook Miles stamps. I got the one for cooking 500 dishes! Next up is finishing out the one for selling fruit.

[sunshine-and-polaris]

Paracosm Info | DreamSet Circus

I'm only comfortable with MaDDers/IDDers rebloging, thanks.

✨ General Info/Plot

What living/working at a circus is like, pretty much. I....honestly don't know what else to say about it, tbh that's pretty much the basics??

✨ Paras

Calypso Raymond; The Ringleader/Ringmaster. Male (he/him). main parame for...almost everything lol. Super energetic.

Diana Harding; the fashionista of the group. a living doll. from the 1800s. was alive during the women's suffrage movement in great britain. best friends with liam.

Prism; She's a daughter of Iris, goddess of the rainbow, so she can control colors & kinda bend light. Uh, shes kinda clingy, esp with Calypso since Prism has known him since literal birth—she was brought to the circus as a newborn baby by, Isaac, Liam, or Delilah I'm presuming. She likes to fuck up the colors on everything & everyone, which bugs Diana because fashion, but they still get along great. Shes the second youngest of the group.

Liam; the Big Brother of everyone. He's the strong man (oh, yeah, Diana makes everyone's (performing) clothes and other fashion stuff). Tbh I don't have much on him?? I think he's french, or russian, he definitely has an accent lol. Liam is the oldest outta everyone there (besides Isaac, but he retired), being around 25-30ish. Not sure what his back story is, but I'll update this when I do. Anyways, Liam is usually hanging out with Diana and they're like, best friends

Clairette; the youngest outta all of them. Shes has some spider DNA in her, meaning she has four arms (one normal pair and then a pair on her torso). Uh, actually, she kinda caused Calypso's death?? Like. So. She was "in charge" of feeding Gold that day, and basically begged Cali to perform with the lion, despite him being the only one fully qualified to be the lion-tamer??? Clairette feels super guilty about it tho, and p much everyone's forgiven her by now (with. some grudges/anger popping up from time to time but that's usually when they gotta relive it again)

Delilah; a ballerina. And an *assassin*. Tbh I think the reason DreamSet has so much money is because she takes jobs on the dl, ofc everyone working there knows what she does and stuff, but like hell they'll turn her in. Shes also the second oldest at like, 20, aannddd a lot more mature than Calypso, so she also handles the finances and things like that

Guinevere & Dice; Guinevere & Dice are twins, and idk Dice's real name is?? Like, obviously Guinevere knows, since they grew up together and stuff, but nobody else does?? Anyways, those two are in charge of the "Gambling Corner" aka Casino. Its still """kid friendly""", meaning its just rigged carnival games and some stuff for adults (that always lose their money lmao). Guinevere likes do deal with games that involve cards, while Dice likes, well, games that involve dice lol

Isaac; He was the original ringleader before Calypso took over. A centaur & everyones dad (no seriously like everyone just. stole his last name lol)

Emily; Isaac's wife and everyone's mom. Had a miscarriage before meeting Diana, so the two have a very mother-daughter like relationship.

#paracosm; dreamset circus #paraportal #paracosm info #para; calypso raymond #para; diana harding #para; dice #para; guinevere #para; prism #para; liam #para; delilah #paras #sunshine talks for a bit #im slowly clearing out all my drafts yay #anyways yall better ask me abt these guys now

[theladyofmanyfandomsfanfiction]

A Case They’ll Like

Characters: Raymond Reddington x Reader (platonic)

Warnings: None.

Summary: You and Reddington drop by the ‘Post Office’ to deliver a delicious case to the team...

Reddington looked around the Post Office and chuckled at the various personnel wandering about doing their jobs. He hadn’t paid a physical visit in so long that he almost forgot how much they reminded him of worker ants.

He leaned over to you, ready to repeat his thoughts when you spoke first. 

“Don’t compare them to worker ants today.” You advised with a small shake of the head.

Reddington couldn’t help but roll his eyes at the comment and bite his tongue as you both approached your favourite team of agents.

“A house-call?” Ressler smirked. “To what do we owe this displeasure?”

His sarcasm was noted by the criminal and Ressler found himself pinned under a very unamused glare.

“Donald, if you want to continue this partnership then I’d suggest toning it down.”

Noticing the way that the agents smile dropped slightly, you shot Ressler a quick wink before tapping your hands on the table and drew attention to yourself.

“I know you’re wondering why we’re here, but I think you’ll really like this one.”

Reddington clapped his hands, rubbing them together and laughed. “Oh, boy - I recently learned that the Great Star of Africa was being transported back to England. I had organised a heist to lift it at the docks before it reached its destination but when my people got there, the shipment was missing.”

There was the sound of speed typing from behind Aram’s computer and the large screen lit up to display a large tear-drop shaped diamond beside the Crown Jewels.

“You want us to help you steal that?” Elizabeth scoffed and Reddington shook his head.

“Good heavens, no. My sources say that the lucrative Prism Brothers have a hand to play in this so I’m meeting with a contact at the Como Shambhala Estate in Ubud to get their location.” He explained and reached into his coat pocket, pulling out two rectangular pieces of paper. “And as it so happens...”

You smiled brightly, eyes glimmering with anticipation. “Here it comes.”

“I was kind enough to pick up two extra passes - so which of you want to take a spa day?” Reddington asked as he gently waved the tickets. The man then quickly added that it had all been approved by the director in case they had any qualms in regard to their jobs over the next two days.

Elizabeth smiled at how excited Reddington was but then sighed, “As much as I’d love to join you on this little ‘retreat’ in Bali - I can’t leave Agnes without a nanny.” She replied, reminding everyone that her duty to her daughter came first.

Turning to the woman, Reddington gasped as if he had forgotten something. “Ah yes, I have a solution for that.” He gestured to his side and you sent a small wave to Elizabeth. “Y/n’s staying grounded while I’m away and, from what I hear, Anges adores Y/n.”

“I can’t just expect them to drop everything and...” Elizabeth began to argue but you stepped forward.

“Honestly Liz, I was going to order in and watch movies until Red got back. Staying with Agnes is a much better plan and besides, you deserve a small break.”

Elizabeth went quiet as she considered her response. She trusted her daughter with you more than Reddington so she knew that Agnes would be kept safe. Plus, two days away would help her focus on a strategy to find Ilya Koslov.

“Okay, I’ll come along.” The agent finally replied. 

Reddington chuckled and looked around at the others.

“Excellent. Who else?” He wondered aloud, eyes landing on Ressler.

The blonde-haired agent realised and quickly shook his head. “Parks and I have a lot of paperwork to get through after your last Blacklister. Why don’t you take Aram? He could do with a spa day.”

The man behind the computer swallowed nervously as all eyes turned on him.

“Well, I do enjoy the occasional sauna.”

Reddington was grinning now that this has been sorted. “Wonderful, I’ll have Dembe pick you all up tomorrow morning so pack light.”

Masterlist here

#theladyofmanyfandoms #theladyofmanyfandomsfanfiction #gif is not mine #reddington x reader #raymond reddington x reader #reddington imagine #raymond reddington imagine #donald ressler x reader #donald ressler imagine #ressler imagine #ressler x reader #blacklist imagine #the blacklist imagine #the blacklist x reader #the blacklist fluff

[healing-winston-pratt]

RENEGADES PORTRAITS MASTERLIST

Time to get a bit emotional

Ok so, I joined this fandom almost a year ago with the main goal to give every Renegades character their own design, since I only saw content of Team Sketch, the Anarchists and sometimes the Council, if I was lucky enough.

And it’s been a long time but... I did it :”) so thank you so much to all of you who have been suporting my art. ♥

I want to sincerely apologize for the first portraits tho, bc those are awful af lmao

Anyways, here they are (plus my age headcanons bc why not?):

A.   PRESENT TRILOGY:

Anarchists:

Alec Artino / Ace Anarchy (55 y/o)

Honey Harper / Queen Bee (56 y/o) (new version here)

Leroy Flinn / Cyanide (57 y/o)

Ingrid Thompson / The Detonator (32 y/o)

Winston Pratt / The Puppeteer (29 y/o)

Phobia (age is an illusion)

The Council:

Hugh Everhart / Captain Chromium (36 y/o)

Simon Westwood / The Dread Warden (36 y/o)

Kasumi Hasegawa / Tsunami (33 y/o)

Evander Wade / Blacklight (29 y/o) (new version here)

Tamaya Rae / Thunderbird (38 y/o)

Team Sketch:

Nova Artino / Nightmare-Insomnia (17 y/o)

Adrian Everhart / Sketch-The Sentinel (16 y/o)

Ruby Tucker / Red Assasin (16 y/o)

Oscar Silva / Smokescreen (16 y7o)

Danna Bell / Monarch (17 y/o)

Team Frostbite:

Genissa Clark / Frostbite (19 y/o)

Trevor Dunn / Gargoyle (23 y/o)

Mack Baxter / Aftershock (21 y/o)

Raymond Stern / Stingray (18 y/o)

Others:

Max Everhart / The Bandit (10 y/o)

Margaret White / Magpie (11 y/o) (new version here)

Callum Treadwell / Wonder (17 y/o)

Narcissa Cronin /Mirror Walker (16 y/o)

Gene Cronin / The Librarian (80 y/o)

Prism (39 y/o)

Tina Lawrence / Snapshot (74 y/o)

Millie (72 y/o)

David and Tala Artino (31 and 30 y/o respectively by the Prologue)

Hawthorn (32 y/o)

 B.   AGE OF ANARCHY YEAR 15:

Anarchists

Alec Artino / Ace Anarchy (40 y/o)

Honey Harper / Queen Bee (41 y/o) (again, new version here)

Leroy Flinn / Cyanide (42 y/o)

Ingrid Thompson / The Detonator (17 y/o)

Winston Pratt / The Puppeteer (14 y/o)

The Council

Georgia Rawles / Lady Indomitable (24 y/o) (new version here)

Hugh Everhart / Captain Chromium (21 y/o)

Simon Westwood / The Dread Warden (21 y/o)

Kasumi Hasegawa / Tsunami (18 y/o)

Evander Wade / Blacklight (14 y/o)

Tamaya Rae / Thunderbird (23 y/o)

Reblogs would be pretty much appreciated in case some of you might have missed a portrait! Thank you :”) ♥

#renegades trilogy #renegades fanart #my art #nova artino #adrian everhart #anarchists #the council #renegades council #team sketch #team frostbite #age of anarchy #archenemies #supernova #supernova marissa meyer #marissa meyer #supernova spoilers

[perennialessays]

Literature and Philosophy

MA IN LITERARY STUDIES

 Literature and Philosophy (EN71021A): Course Outline Spring 2019

Tutor: Julia Ng

Teaching Mode: 2-hour seminar

Seminar Wednesday 9-11

St James Hatcham G02

NB: Please acquire a print copy of Walter Benjamin’s Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. J. Osborne (Verso, 1998/2009), as we will be studying this text in its entirety. Other materials for this course will be posted to the course’s learn.gold page.

  Week 1, Wednesday 16

th

January – Introduction; “intention” in Brentano and Husserl

Introductory discussion

Franz Brentano, “The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena,” in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint [1874], trans. A. C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell and L. L. McAlister (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1995), Bk. 2, chap. 1, pp. 59-77.

Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science," in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (Harper & Row, 1965), section on “Naturalistic Philosophy,” pp. 79-122.

 Week 2, Wednesday 23th January – Husserl

Edmund Husserl, “Philosophy as a Rigorous Science," in Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy, trans. Quentin Lauer (Harper & Row, 1965), excerpt from “Historicism and Weltanschauung Philosophy,” pp. 122-129.

Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, I, trans. F. Kersten (Martinus Nijhoff, 1983), §§87-90, 93-95.

 Week 3, Wednesday 30th January – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Epistemo-Critical Prologue”

 References

Plato, Symposium

Scheler, “On the Tragic”

 Wek 4, Wednesday 6th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ I

 References

Schmitt, Political Theology

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

Calderon, Life is a Dream

 Week 5, Wednesday 13th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ II

 References

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Lukács, Soul and Forms

Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption

Scheler, “On the Tragic”

Benjamin, “Fate and Character”; “Toward the Critique of Violence”

 Week 6, Wednesday 20th February

Tutorial Week – No seminar

 Week 7, Wednesday 27th February – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Trauerspiel and Tragedy,“ III; „Allegory and Trauerspiel,“ I

 References

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Panofsky and Saxl on Dürer’s Melancholia I

Giehlow on Melancholia I; The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs

Warburg

Freud, “Mourning and Melancholia”

 Week 8, Wednesday 6th March – Benjamin

Benjamin, OGT, “Allegory and Trauerspiel,“ II and III

 References

Benjamin, “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man”; “The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy”; “Trauerspiel and Tragedy”

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

 Week 9, Wednesday 13th March – Adorno

Adorno, “The Actuality of Philosophy” (May 2, 1931), in Telos 31 (1977), 120-133.

Adorno, “The Idea of Natural History” (1932), in Telos 60 (1984), 111-124.

 Week 10, Wednesday 20th March – Adorno

Adorno, “III.2 World Spirit and Natural History,” in Negative Dialectics, trans. E.B. Ashton, Continuum, 1973, pp. 300-360.

 Week 11, Wednesday 27th March – Conclusion

General discussion

 Preparatory Reading

Gryphius, Leo Armenius

Calderon, Life Is A Dream

Shakespeare, Hamlet

Hofmannsthal, The Tower

 Further Reading

 Benjamin

On Language as Such and on the Language of Man (1916)

The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)

Trauerspiel and Tragedy (1916)

Fate and Character (1919)

Toward the Critique of Violence (1921)

Calderon's El mayor monstrue, los celos and Hebbel's Herodus and Mariamne (1923)

 General

Adorno, Theodor. "Portrait of Walter Benjamin," in: Prisms. Trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. MIT Press, 1981.

Adorno, Theodor. Against Epistemology: A Metacritique. Trans. Willis Domingo. Oxford: Blackwell, 1982.

Adorno, Theodor, and Walter Benjamin. The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940. Ed. Henri Lonitz. Trans. Nicholas Walker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999.

Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Stanford UP, 1998.

Cascardi, Anthony J. "Comedia and Trauerspiel: On Benjamin and Calderón." Comparative Drama 16:1 (1982), 1-11.

Cobb-Stevens, Richard. “Husserl on Eidetic Intuition and Historical Interpretation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 261–75.

Comay, Rebecca. "Mourning Work and Play," in Research in Phenomenology 23 (1993), pp. 105-130.

Drummond, John. “Husserl on the Ways to the Performance of the Reduction,” Man and World 8 (1975): 47–69.

Drummond, John. “The Structure of Intentionality,” in The New Husserl, ed. D. Welton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003), 65–92.

Derrida, Jacques. "Force of Law."

Fenves, Peter. "Marx, Mourning, Messianity," in: Hent de Vries/Samuel Weber (Hg.): Violence, Identity and Self-Determination, Stanford, 1997, 253–270.

Fenves, Peter. "Tragedy and Prophecy in Benjamin’s 'Origin of the German Mourning Play,'" in: Arresting Language. From Leibniz to Benjamin, Stanford UP, 2001, 227–248.

Foster, Roger. Adorno: The Recovery of Experience. SUNY Press, 2007.

Freud, Sigmund. "Mourning and Melancholia," The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, XIV. The Hogarth Press, 1957, pp. 237-258.

Friedlander, Eli. "On the Musical Gathering of Echoes of the Voice: Walter Benjamin on Opera and the Trauerspiel." The Opera Quarterly, vol. 21 no. 4 (2005), pp. 631-646.

Geulen, Eva. The End of Art : Readings in a Rumor after Hegel. Stanford University Press, 2006.

Giehlow, Karl, and Robin Raybould. The Humanist Interpretation of Hieroglyphs in the Allegorical Studies of the Renaissance with a Focus on the Triumphal Arch of Maximilian I. Brill, 2015.

Hamacher, Werner. "Guilt History."  

Hanssen, Beatrice. Walter Benjamin's Other History : of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels. University of California Press, 1998.

Hanssen, Beatrice. "Philosophy at Its Origin: Walter Benjamin’s Prologue to the 'Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels,'" in: Modern Language Notes 110 (1995), 809–833.

Haverkampf, Hans-Erhard. Benjamin in Frankfurt : Die Zentralen Jahre 1922-1932. Societäts-Verlag, 2016.

Helmling, Steven. "Constellation and Critique: Adorno's Constellation, Benjamin's Dialectical Image." Postmodern Culture 14:1 (2003).

Johnson, Barbara, The Wake of Deconstruction, Cambridge, Mass, 1994.

Johnson, Christopher D. “Configuring the Baroque: Warburg and Benjamin.” Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 57, no. 2, 2016, pp. 142–165.

Kantorowicz, Ernst H. The King's Two Bodies : a Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton University Press, 1997.

Klibansky, Raymond; Panofsky, Erwin; Saxl, Fritz. Saturn and Melancholy : Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. Basic Books, 1964.

Lacan, Jacques. "Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet," in: Shoshana Felman (ed.): Literature and Psychoanalysis. The Question of Reading: Otherwise, Baltimore, 1982, 11–52.

Lindner, Burkhardt. "Habilitationsakte Benjamin. Über ein 'akademisches Trauerspiel' und über ein Vorkapitel der "Frankfurter Schule" (Horkheimer, Adorno)/"Walter Benjamins's attempt of a Habilitation. On an 'academic Trauerspiel' and on other preliminaries of the "Frankfurter Schule" (Horkheimer, Adorno)." In: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 14.53 (1984): 147-166.

Lukács, György. Soul and Form. MIT Press, 1978.

Lukács, György. Theory of the Novel.

Marin, Louis. Food for Thought. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

McFarland, James. “Presentation.” Constellation: Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History. Fordham University Press, 2012, pp. 67-102 (Chapter 2).

McLaughlin, Kevin. "Benjamin's Barbarism." The Germanic Review: Literture, Culture, Theory, 81:1 (2006), 4-20.

Menke, Christoph, and James. Phillips. Tragic Play : Irony and Theater from Sophocles to Beckett. Columbia University Press, 2009.

Merback, Mitchell B. Perfection's Therapy : an Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia I. Zone Books, 2017.

Miller, J. Hillis. »The Two Allegories«, in: Morton Bloomfield (ed.): Allegory, Myth and Symbol, Cambridge, 1981, 355–370.

Mininger, J. D., and Jason Michael Peck. German Aesthetics : Fundamental Concepts from Baumgarten to Adorno. Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Nägele, Rainer. Theater, Theory, and Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity, Baltimore, 1991.

Newman, Jane O. Benjamin's Library: modernity, nation, and the Baroque. Cornell UP, 2011.

Newman, Jane O. "Tragedy and 'Trauerspiel' for the (Post-)Westphalian Age." In: Renaissance Drama 40 (2012), pp. 197-208.

Newman, Jane. “Enchantment in Times of War: Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin, and the Secularization Thesis.” Representations, vol. 105, no. 105, 2009, pp. 133-0_4.

Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

Pensky, Max. Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning. U Mass Press, 1993.

Plato, Symposium.

Rosenzweig, Franz, and Barbara Ellen Galli. The Star of Redemption. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

Scheler, Max. "On the Tragic." CrossCurrents 4.2 (1954), 178-191.

Schmitt, Carl, et al. Hamlet or Hecuba : the Intrusion of the Time into the Play. Telos Press, 2009.

Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology : Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Szondi, Peter. An Essay on the Tragic. Stanford University Press, 2002.

Weber, Samuel. Benjamin's -Abilities. Harvard University Press, 2008.

Willard, Dallas. “The Paradox of Logical Psychologism: Husserl’s Way Out,” American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (1972): 94–100.

Woodfield, Richard (ed.) Art history as cultural history: Warburg's projects. G+B Arts International, 2000.

 Learning Outcomes

 -       You will have a grasp of the place of literature in the modern Continental philosophy tradition.

-       You will have a good understanding of how this tradition challenges and transforms Classical philosophical conceptions of literature.

-       You will be able to expound and analyse the textual and conceptual styles of the three key thinkers on the course.

-       You will have a sound grasp of the literature of and on both the broad relationship between literature and philosophy, and the three specific thinkers addressed on the module.

-       You will be able to use the ideas and texts explored in the module to inform your readings in literary and cultural texts.

 Assessment Criteria

 -       Students should show a clear command of traditional conceptions of the literary in the history of philosophy, and of how the modern Continental tradition challenges these.

-       Students should show a detailed critical knowledge of at least one of the module’s key thinkers’ ideas.

-       Students should show a knowledge and capacity to use a good range of secondary literature on both general issues in the field and on the specific thinkers and texts they address.

-       Students should be able to read the relevant texts from both literary critical and conceptual perspectives.

-       Students should show an awareness of the relevance of the issues and texts studied on the course to contemporary debates in literary theory.

#goldsmiths #literature and philosophy

[aion-rsa]

Best New Movies on Netflix in March 2021

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The month of March signals a grim milestone with it being roughly one year since COVID-19 shut movie theaters down around the world. And 12 months later, going to a cinema remains a risky proposition. However, the comfort of Netflix is still providing a safe alternative for the quarantine-bound.

Here’s a handful of new cinematic gems coming to a streaming service near you.

Batman Begins (2005)

March 1

Christopher Nolan‘s Batman origin story breathed new life into the Dark Knight in 2005 after Batman & Robin killed the movie franchise eight years earlier. Christian Bale, who gained more muscle than he probably needed for the role, turns in an excellent performance as both the troubled billionaire and the Caped Crusader. Along for the ride are Michael Caine as the definitive version of Alfred Pennyworth on the big screen, as well as Liam Neeson as Ra’s al Ghul, Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, and Katie Holmes as love interest Rachel Dawes. Featuring plenty of twists and turns, a few spooky scenes with the Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy), and a deep-dive into the mind of a haunted man on a mission to save his decaying city, Batman Begins plants many of the seeds of brilliance that would fully bloom in its follow-up.

Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

March 1

Hitting its 10-year anniversary in a few months, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s Crazy, Stupid, Love. still feels like a rom-com from a different era. With its laid back demeanor, and generally laconic grooving on a plot about a player (Ryan Gosling) helping a middle-aged divorced schmuck (Steve Carell) get back on his feet, this goes down more like a star vehicle from five decades ago. Yet the piece is as effortlessly appealing as Gosling’s too-cool-for-school energy, elevating the movie over screenwriter Dan Fogelman’s more recent dramedies, such as This is Us. Plus, hey, it’s also the first movie to realize Gosling and Emma Stone have like crazy good chemistry.

Dances with Wolves (1990)

March 1

Kevin Costner’s Oscar winner is somewhat haunted by its little gold statues for Best Picture and Director, which it won over Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. However, there is still an excellent Western here that captured audiences’ imaginations in 1990 for a reason. The story of a U.S. Cavalry officer who becomes enamored with and then assimilated by a community of Lakota Native Americans, Dances with Wolves has a sweeping majesty that’s as immersive as John Barry’s score. It can be rightly criticized for embracing “white savior” tropes, but Costner’s movie still has the good grace to put performances like Graham Greene’s front and center.

The Dark Knight (2008)

March 1

Fans critical of Heath Ledger’s casting as the Joker quickly switched to praising the late actor when The Dark Knight hit theaters in 2008. A true agent of chaos, this Joker puts Bale’s Batman and his allies through a gauntlet of capers, assassination attempts, and pain. Even district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), the city’s very own white knight, can’t resist the Joker’s corrupting influence as the clown lays siege to Gotham. A story about how far you’ll go to get justice, and how long a functioning society can withstand that pressure, The Dark Knight plays more like a serious crime drama (with Batman flying off rooftops on occasion, of course) than a traditional superhero romp. At a time when superhero movies were still better known for punching and tights, Nolan sought to say something more with the genre. 

Rain Man (1988)

March 1

Barry Levinson’s 1988 road trip drama cleaned up at the Oscars when it was released, bagging Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman. It’s often held up as creating the stereotype of the “autistic savant,” but this drama which sees selfish douchebag Charlie (Tom Cruise) travel across America with Raymond (Hoffman), the brother he didn’t know he had but who is now unexpectedly the sole inheritor of their father’s fortune, still stands up as a character piece that tugs at the heartstrings. If nothing else, it’s a highly quotable cultural phenomenon and a showcase of actors at the top of their game.

Training Day (2001)

March 1

Here is a film so good that its influence still lingers over pop culture to this day, even if no one quite remembers why Denzel Washington is saying King Kong ain’t got shit on him. Back in 2001, it catapulted Washington to his second Oscar, this time in the leading man category thanks to the role of Alonzo, a crooked cop who takes rookie Jake (Ethan Hawke) under his wing and (seemingly) into his vices. It’s a gritty crime thriller anchored by two strong performances, including Washington at his showiest. In fact, he’s so good at elevating this movie that it sometimes feels like director Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter David Ayer have been unsuccessfully trying to duplicate it ever since.

Audrey (2020)

March 14

Audrey Hepburn so effortlessly inhabits the screen that for generations of movie lovers, she seemed unreal—a symbol of style and glamour whose feet were never meant to touch earthly clay. This, however, misses the remarkableness of her life’s journey, from starving conditions under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands during her adolescence—informing her unique frame for the rest of her life—to eventually using those unspoken memories of atrocity as the foundation to become a human rights activist late in life. In between, she had a brief Hollywood career stacked with high fashion and a shockingly high quotient of classics. In fact, she became a new image for femininity in the mid-20th century. Audrey is a somewhat rose-tinted documentary about all of this, but for those who would like to know more, it’s a lovely place to start.

Philomena (2013)

March 22

A sweet, powerful, and decidedly underrated gem, Stephen Frears’ Philomena provides a gentle touch to the true life story of Philomena Lee, a woman who spent 50 years looking for the child she was forced to give up to adoption. But even “forced” is perhaps too easy a word since in her native Ireland, she was more or less incarcerated at a convent after becoming pregnant at the age of 18, with nuns sending the child away to parts unknown without her consent. Philomena now tracks the final months of her search as an older woman through the prism of a two-hander between Judi Dench as Philomena and Steve Coogan as Martin Sixsmith, the journalist who told her story and inspired the film. It makes for a surprisingly warm and affectionate road movie.

At Eternity’s Gate (2018)

March 31

At Eternity’s Gate is far from the only film about the life of Vincent van Gogh and it isn’t the best (shout out to Lust For Life, Loving Vincent, and that one episode of Doctor Who), but it’s still worth a watch—especially for fans of the Dutch painter. With Willem Dafoe as van Gogh, Oscar Isaac as Paul Gaugin, and Mads Mikkelsen as “The Priest,” the 2018 biopic would be worth it for the performances alone. But director and artist Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Basquiat) further elevates what is a pretty straight-forward story (albeit with a controversial ending) about the painter’s final, prolific days in the French countryside into a visually vivid and emotionally affecting tale about the joys and struggles of creative compulsion.

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[ucflibrary]

Streaming movies at home is a lovely convenience during these times, but it can’t fully replace the experience of seeing them in a theater. As movie houses, like every other business, begin to cautiously consider re-opening, we take a look at two movies that celebrate the magic of going to the cinema.

~

Cinema Mon Amour (Alexandru Belc, 2015)

Romania had a peak of over 400 cinemas before the fall of Communism, all state-run. By 2015, which saw the release of the documentary Cinema Mon Amour, there were less than 30. One of these is the Cinema Dacia and Viktor Purice has been managing it since 1970.

The theater is both falling apart and seeing dwindling attendance. In one scene Viktor goes outside and offers a bunch of loitering teenagers a two-for-one offer to get them to come in. When a TV reporter asks him during an interview how he's doing, he simply says, "Surviving." He even travels to Germany to see how a bigger, more successful theater is run so he can get new ideas.

Cinema Dacia is quite a gorgeous theater, but it is indeed rundown. They have to offer blankets and give out cups of tea to keep their patrons warm during the colder months. Viktor himself also must do most of the renovations as he's not getting help from the poor management of Romania Film.

Cinema Mon Amour is less an elegy for a dying movie culture than it is a document about the passing of time and an examination of a man doing everything he can to keep what he once knew from slipping away. Viktor is a generally even-keeled person, but the most moving moment in the movie is when he admits to not being able to sleep, that it hurts him when people don't pay attention to him. He's mainly talking about his Romania Film superiors, but I think he also means the audience. He hopes he'll be remembered for what he brought to the community.

Late in the film, Viktor is rocking out to a song on the radio that after a few bars I slowly began to realize must have been some Romanian cover of "Hotel California." Throughout these final sections of the movie, he begins to wonder to the rest of the crew if it's worth continuing trying to preserve the theater, to stop making big sacrifices and trying to be some sort of folk hero. But after 40 years, it proves difficult to leave something that is such a big part of what defines him. Old movie houses like these tend to have a magic that even the newest, shiniest theaters can't even begin to approach. As the final line in "Hotel California" states, "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."

Cinema Mon Amour (2015) is available through Alexander Street Press.

~

Shadow Magic (Ann Hu, 2000)

Shadow Magic tells the story of cinema's arrival in China at the beginning of the 20th century. Liu Jing Lun is the chief photographer at Feng Tai Studio in Peking. When Englishman Raymond Wallace arrives, he is there to spread the gospel of a new technology: cinema.

Liu is a curious young man, often distracted by new technologies. The opening shots of the film see him fascinated by the phonograph, to the point he brings it to the studio to play music while taking photos. But when Raymond lets him into his new attraction--also called Shadow Magic--Liu has found a new obsession and gets himself a second job recruiting skeptical audiences to fill the house.

Much of the conflict comes as these outside influences begin to encroach on Chinese traditions. Lord Tan, a famous opera singer, sees his audience dwindle as more people begin to go to Shadow Magic. The movie imagines what it must have been like to see pictures that move for the first time. Many of what we see on screen are the famous silent shorts of the Lumieres and other early cinema pioneers. It even recreates the apocryphal story of Arrival of a Train at La Ciota, the urban legend that audiences once ran from their seats thinking the approaching locomotive would plow through them.

But the movie also works at inverting the trope of the Magical Asian, wherein the sole character of color exists only to provide wisdom or guidance to the white protagonist. Here, Raymond is the only white character and his service to the story is overtly to provide "magic," passing onto Liu the ability to spread cinema to a wider audience in China. Even within the broader historical context, the final titles of the film mention that many foreigners brought cinema to China during this time and that "the first Shadow Magic showman remains unknown,” literally making this person a mystical, mythical figure.

At Feng Tai, Liu would go on to direct the first movie made in China—starring Lord Tan, no less. Liu and Raymond realize that the appeal of the cinema isn't just to see people from far off lands as a form of escapist entertainment, but to see what's in your own backyard through a different lens. Cinema can be both a mirror and a prism through which to see the world we're living as we're living it. It was true then at it is now.

Shadow Magic (Ann Hu, 2000) is available through Alexander Street Press.

#weekend watching #ucflibrary #streaming video #alexander street press #shadow magic #cinema mon amour

[acircusfullofdemons]

🗡🏆 HUNGER GAMES SIMULATOR 🏆🗡

INTRO

Because of the posts by @maddgical-boy [link] & @nevermore-grimes [link], I will now be subjecting my paras to the Horrors. I have a lloottttt of paras, so to make this simply I used a random number generator to select the new victims tributes.

I will also be adding commentary on how accurate this would be to my paras. Because I can’t have fun without criticizing their every decision, despite forcing them to make those decisions in the first place. Bullying my paras is a full time job and brother, I just clocked in >:3

TRIBUTES

District 1: Edward Nixon [Mad as a Crow: Missing Piece of the Puzzle], Lucy Fisher [Phantasmagoria: DreamSet Circus]

District 2: Loyd Nixon [Mad as a Crow: Missing Piece of the Puzzle], Benjamin Graves [Mad as a Crow]

District 3: Marzipan Velveteen [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life], Neil O’Brian [Mad as a Crow: A Plague of Octopuses]

District 4: Beelzebub Honeyblood [Phantasmagoria: Crossfire], Reign Blanc [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life]

District 5: Phineas Glazier [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life], Luciana Potenza [Phantasmagoria]

District 6: Phoebe Sparks [Phantasmagoria: ElectroGear Software], Prism Raymond [Phantasmagoria: DreamSet Circus]

District 7: Thackery Velveteen [Phantasmagoria: Illusions of Life], Rosemary Velveteen [Fractured Fables: She Trusts me, He Loves Me Not]

District 8: Victor West [Mad as a Crow], CaterpillarOS [Fractured Fables: Illusions of Life]

District 9: Mary Crowley [Mad as a Crow], Ketrill Hyde [Phantasmagoria: As the World Falls Down]

District 10: Khole Banner [Mad as a Crow: Assembled Monsters], Alex Grimm [Fractured Fables]

District 11: Stacy Collins [Mad as a Crow], Orion Guerrero [Mad as a Crow]

District 12: Vincent Hyde [Phantasmagoria], Lucien Jekyll [Phantasmagoria]

BLOODBATH

Yknow what i just realized. CaterpillarOS is, uh, a giant robot caterpillar. Khole is a weird mix of species but yeah there’s no way he’d win that fight. 

Aint no fucking way Neil would loose to a blind girl. She has the power of accuracy but is smaller and younger than Neil. He’d rip her to shreds!!

HOW DID PHINEAS SET KETRILL ON FIRE LMAO

DAY 01

I like to think she read him, ironically, one of the brother’s grimms books. It’d be so funny for various reasons. 

NNOOO MARY 😭 say goodbye to our only licensed nurse everyone…

uuuuhhh something something phineas in the wrong paracosm. insert joke about d//c or para!jervis here.

Interesting team up! No idea why Eddie would work with Loyd since that’s his father and they hate each other. Same with Stacy, she hates Eddie bc that’s her dad. I fully believe Prism and Lucy are being held captive here, folks.

Accurate !!! sorry rosemary BUT ALSO. WOW. I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW ACCURATE THIS IS OH MY GOD??? GIRL HOW DID YOU LIVE OUT YOUR TALE ALL THE WAY OUT HERE IM SCREAMING. also wow accurate for Neil too. Killing another innocent child, I see. At least this one’s intentional!

Our fallen tributes are: CaterpillarOS, Ketrill Hyde, Mary Crowley, Rosemary Glazier.

NIGHT 01

Bee! Don’t kill the bunny!! But fair lol

Debating on if Neil would keep a victim alive. I think for a little bit, for the psychological torment. He always liked to play with his food. 

That is a VERY tense truce lmao, Stacy hates basically everyone Eddie is associated with, which includes the Crowley Family bc ooo boy, that family is a Certified Mess.

Luce 🤝 Phineas: ripped away from their home at a young age thanks to a random dimension portal. Not the same case here but wow I never noticed that. 

DAY 02

Nothing interesting to note.

Our fallen tributes are: Marzipan Velveteen, Phineas Glazier

NIGHT 02

Khole winning is just…perfect. All 3 have to do with experimentation (Khole & Neil are from the same lab/facility/organization, actually!) but Khole was made first, both in a story context and meta context. So. yeah. Older Sibling Rights.

TWIN TEAM UP HELL YEAH!!!!

Either Orion or Eddie is winning those ghost stories bc Orion knew Aurelia, and she worshiped the god of fear, while Eddie knows Jonathan, Aurelia’s descendant and uses fear in his villain schemes. Then again, Bee is literally a demon, so….

YAY STACY!!! sorry loyd just…sucks lmao fuck outta here

DAY 03

Nothing interesting to note.

ARENA EVENT

Our fallen tributes are: Victor West, Neil O’Brian, Loyd Nixon, Reign Blanc, Orion Guerrero, Luciana Potenza, Khole Banner, Vincent Hyde, Thackery Velveteen. Only 9 people left!

Nothing of interest to note for NIGHT 03.

THE FEAST happens, aka The Cornucopia is refilled.

Nothing interesting to note for DAY 04 & NIGHT 04.

Our fallen tributes are: Benjamin Graves, Lucien Jekyll.

Nothing interesting to note for DAY 05 & NIGHT 05.

DAY 06: Eddie dies by accidentally drinking his own poison. Get wrecked, idiot.

NIGHT 06: Prism bashes Alex’s head in. Get his ass!!

Nothing interesting to note for DAY 07, NIGHT 07, & DAY 08.

NIGHT 08: Stacy poisons Prism. Lucy dies from thirst.

Stacy wins!! Wow. Fucking lame as shit I don’t even like her. Wish she stayed wherever the fuck she was before moving to Prism Pulse. Whatever! Realistically speaking she would’ve been killed way back at that random family reunion thing. Yes, by Eddie. he would’ve killed his own daughter. what of it.

#paraportal #luka.txt #dlc: hunger games #system: eternal labyrinth #console: phantasmagoria #console: mad as a crow #console: fractured fables #sorry i kinda lost steam / got bored lmaoaoo #it is funny to me that they only lasted 8 days. like yeah. that checks out.

[connieadrrr]

Intro to IR: Answering Question

Connie Aderiana D S - 072011233077 - USA

1. Nationalism can be defined as the idea that membership of the nation serves the main focus of political identity and loyalty. It also can be considered as ideology, as politics, as sentiments. Nationalism can be classified into two types, civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism. Civic nationalism is commitment to a a state and its value while ethnic nationalism is commitment to a group of common descent. Nationalism can also shape national identity of a nation (Baylis et al,. 2014). 

2. National Identity helps us to know “who we truly are” in the contemporary world. It also provides a powerful means of defining and locating individual selves in the world, through the prism of the collective personality and its distinctive culture (Smith, 1991).

3. Power is one of the main elements in international relations. Power is the production, in and through social relations, of effects on actors that shape their capacity to control their fate (Barnet et al,. 2005). Power is classified into soft power, hard power, and smart power. Hard power is usually shown in military factors and economy force. Soft power tends to use emotional intelligence, such as building relationships among countries using persuasive communications. Smart power is the combination of hard power and soft power.

Reference

Smith, Anthony D. (1991) National Identity, Penguin Books.

Barnett, Michael & Raymond Duvall (2005) “Power in International Politics” International Organization, Vol. 59, No. 1; pp. 39-75.

Amstrong, David (2014) "The evolution of international society" in, J. Baylis, S. Smith & P. Owens (eds.), Globalization of World Politics. An introduction to international relations, (eds.), 6th edition, Oxford University Press [Chapter 2].

#IRFEST_USA_Intro To IR

[alyblacklist]

Ok wow - I am not going to ignore this because you have made a whole lot of presumptions about Nancy and myself in this little tag rant that are simply untrue and unfair.

First, our decision to limit Redtember to being a celebration of RED -- not Katarina -- has nothing to do with hate, intolerance or any form of transphobia and I really resent your implication otherwise.  It has everything to do with keeping this event focused solely on the Raymond Reddington character.  We had posts last year that pushed the Rederina theory.  Now that canon has evolved further, we decided, after careful consideration, that we would not include such posts on our page this year and thought it was best to be upfront about that since it is a change from last year.  It’s that simple.

Second, are you honestly suggesting that disliking the Rederina theory makes either of us haters, intolerant and un-Christian?  I mean, wow.  That’s really a step too far.  I dislike the theory because I find it absurd in the context of this show and these particular characters.  I therefore choose to keep it off my dash by tag blocking and by not following people who post or reblog posts from others about it.  That is my prerogative, much as others might choose to follow or not follow any number of things in this fandom.  I block plenty of other tags too.  My dislike of the theory as it applies to the storyline of this show, and these particular characters, has zero to do with my personal feelings on anyone in this fandom, much less people I interact with in my daily life.  

So stop making insulting assumptions about people you have never met, know little about, and interact with only through the prism of television show.  

#rant #honestly so over this #and so ready for this theory to be dead and buried so we stop dealing with this nonsense

[afaimsarrowverse]

Personae Dramatis

Das Arrowverse ist groß und nicht immer übersichtlich und mein Verse ist es ebenfalls. Für alle, die also nur eine Serie oder nur gewisse Staffeln gesehen haben, hier eine kleine Übersicht darüber, wer wer ist:

Personae Dramatis:

Sense8-AU-Fusion-Verse:

 Die Legends:

 Sara Lance, The Canary, White Canary, Captain Lance, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Anführerin der Legends

 Ray Palmer, The Atom, Mitglied der Legends, Verbündeter von Team Arrow

 Martin Stein, Hälfte von Firestorm, Mitglied der Legends

 Jefferson Jackson, Hälfte von Firestorm, Mitglied der Legends

 Mick Rory, Heatwave, Mitglied der Legends

 Rip Hunter, Captain Hunter, Gründer der Legends, ein Time-Master

 Nate Heywood, Steel, Mitglied der Legends

 Amaya Jiwe, Vixen, Mitglied der JSA, Mitglied der Legends

 Gideon, KI der Waverider des Schiffs der Legends

 Leonard Snart, Captain Cold, Mitglied der Legends, Meisterdieb, Partner von Mick Rory, Gründer der Rogues

 Kendra Saunders, Chay-Ara, Hawkgirl, Mitglied der Legends

 Carter Hall, Prinz Kufu, Hawkman, Mitglied der Legends

 John Constantine, ein Magier, Mitglied der Legends

 Ava Sharpe, Agentin und spätere Direktorin des Time Bureau, Ava-12, Geliebte von Sara

 Zari Tomaz, Mitglied der Legends

 Charlie, eine Gestaltenwandlerin, Mitglied der Legends

 Mona Wu, Wolfie, Angestellte des Time Bureaus, Mitglied der Legends

  Nora Darhk, Eleanor, Damien Dahrks Tochter, Mitglied der Order, Gefäß von Mallus, Frenemie der Legends

  Behrad Tarazi, Mitglied der Legends, Nutzer des Wintotems, Bruder von Zari

Zari Tarazi, Schwester von Behrad, Mitglied der Legends

Gary Green, ehemaliger Zeitagent, Assistent von John Constantine

Astra Logue, John Constantines Patenkind

  Die Legion der Verdammnis:

 Eobard Thawne, Harrison Wells, Reverse Flash, Anführer von Team Flash, Gründer der Legion der Verdammnis

 Damien Darhk, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Gründer von Hive, Mitglied der Liga der Verdammnis, Vorstand der Order, Anhänger von Mallus

 Malcolm Merlyn, der Magier, Ra’s al Ghul, Anführer der Liga der Assassinen, Frenemie von Team Arrow, Mitglied der Liga der Verdammnis

  Team Arrow:

 Oliver Queen, The Hood, der Bogenschütze, die Kapuze, Arrow, Green Arrow, Al-sa-Him, Mitglied der Bratva, Gründer von Team Arrow, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen

 Laurel Lance, Dinah Laurel Lance, Black Canary, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Schwester von Sara, Anwältin

 Felicity Smoak, Overwatch, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Geliebte von Ray Palmer, Partnerin von Oliver Queen

 Thea Queen, Speedy, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Schwester von Oliver, Tochter von Malcolm Merlyn

 John Diggle, Mitglied von Team Arrow, Agent von Argus, Soldat

 Roy Harper, Arsenal, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Curtis Holt, Mr. Terrific, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Rene Ramirez, Wild Dog, Mitglied von Team Arrow

 Quentin Lance, Captain Lance, Detektive Lance, Officer Lance, The Detective, Vater von Sara und Laurel, Polizist

  Team Flash:

 Barry Allen, The Flash, die Schemen, Gründer von Team Flash

 Caitlin Snow, Mitglied von Team Flash, Ehefrau von Ronnie Raymond

 Cisco Ramon, Vibe, Mitglied von Team Flash

 Joe West, Mitglied von Team Flash, Ziehvater von Barry, Polizist

 Iris West, Mitglied von Team Flash, Barrys Ehefrau, Joes Tochter, Reporterin

 Eddie Thawne, Mitglied von Team Flash, Joes Partner, Iris Geliebter, Polizist

 Wally West, Kid Flash, Sohn von Joe, Bruder von Iris, Mitglied von Team Flash

 Cecile Horton, Joes Lebenspartnerin, Mutter seiner Tochter Jenna, Mitglied von Team Flash

 Harry Wells, Mitglied von Team Flash, Doppelgänger von Harrison Wells von Erde-2

 Jesse Wells, Jesse Quick, Tochter von Harry Wells

 Ralph Dibny, Elongated Man, Mitglied von Team Flash, Privatdetektiv

 Nora West-Allen, XS, Tochter von Iris West und Barry Allen aus der Zukunft

 Frost, alternative Persönlichkeit von Caitlin Snow, mit Eiskräften

Nash Wells, ein Mythbuster aus den Weiten des Multiversums

Sherloque Wells, größter Detektive des Multiversums ehemaliges Mitglied von Team Flash

Allegra Garcia, Iris Azubi beim Central City Citizen, Mitglied von Team Flash

Kamilla Hwang, Ciscos Freundin, Fotografin beim Citizen, Mitglied von Team Flash

  Verbündete:

 Nyssa al Ghul, Erbin des Dämons, Tochter des Dämons, Mitglied der Liga der Assassinen, Geliebte von Sara

 Ronnie Raymond, Hälfte von Firestorm, Verbündeter von Team Flash

 Hank Heywood, Vater von Nate, Sohn von Henry

 Dick Rory, Mick Rorys Vater, ein Soldat

 Lyla Michales, Harbinger, John Diggles Frau, Argus Agentin

 Ted Grant, Wild Cat, bildet Helden aus

 Leo Snart, Citizen Cold, Leonard Snarts Doppelgänger von einer anderen Erde

 David Singh, Polizeichef von Central City

 Julian Albert, eine ehemaliges Mitglied von Team Flash

 Sue Dearborn, eine reiche Erbin

 Gypsy, Ciscos verstorbene Geliebte

 Kate Kane, Batwoman, Heldin von Gotham

 Ryan Choi, ein Wissenschaftler

  Feinde:

 Vandal Savage, Unsterblicher Despot

 Neron, ein Dämon

 Slade Wilson, Deathstroke, Geheimagent, Mirakuru-Soldat, Fremenie von Oliver

 Der Gefängnisdirektor, Direktor des Jugendgefängnis, hat nichts Gutes im Sinn

 Andy Diggle, John Diggles Bruder, Mitglied von Hive

 Isabel Rochev, Ravager, Geliebte von Olivers Vater, skrupellose Geschäftsfrau

 Sebastian Blood, Bruder Blood, Oberhaupt der Bruderschaft des Blutes

 William Hand, Black Hand, ein geheimnisumwitterter Schurke

 Eva McCulloch, eine brilliante Wissenschaftlerin

 Joseph Carver, ihr Ehemann, CEO von McCulloch Industries

 Godspeed, ein böser Speedster aus der Zukunft

 Dschingis Khan, eine aus der Hölle zurückgekehrte Seele

  Die Rogues:

 Clyde Mardon, der erste Weather Wizard, ein Bankräuber

 Mark Mardon, Weather Wizard, Clydes älterer Bruder, ein Bankräuber

 Roy Bivolo, Rainbow Rider, Prism, ein Krimineller

 Jake Simmons, Deathbolt, fragt nicht

 Sam Scudder, Mirror Master, ein Verbrecher

 Rose Dillon, Top, seine Partnerin

 Hartley Rathaway, Pied Piper, ein Dieb

 Roderick Smith, Hartley Lebenspartner

  Die Familie Hunter:

 Miranda Coburn, eine Beinahe Time-Masterin, Ehefrau von Rip Hunter

 Jonas Hunter, Sohn von Rip Hunter und Miranda Coburn

  Die Familie Snart:

 Lisa Snart, Golden Glider, Leonards Schwester

 Lewis Snart, Leonard Snarts Vater, ein Krimineller

 Mrs. Snart, Mutter von Lisa

  Die Familie Allen:

 Nora Allen, Barrys Mutter

 Henry Allen, Barrys Vater

  Die Familie Stein:

 Clarissa Stein, Martin Steins Frau

 Lily Stein. Tochter von Clarissa und Martin

  Die Familie Palmer:

 Sydney Palmer, Rays Bruder

 Grandma Palmer, Ray Palmer Großmutter

 Sandy Palmer, Mutter von Ray und Sydney

 Mr. Palmer, Vater von Ray und Syney

 Anna Loring, Ray Palmers Verlobte

 Die Familie Heywood:

Hank Heywood, Henry, Vater von Nate Heywood

Doris Heywood, Frau von Hank, Mutter von Nate

  Andere Familienmitglieder:

 Jenna West, Tochter von Joe und Cecile

 Francine West, Joe Wests Frau, Mutter von Iris und Wally

 Dante Ramon, Cisco Ramons Bruder

 Debbie Dibny, Ralphs Mutter

 Mr. Thawne, Eddies Vater

 Thomas Snow, Caitlins Vater

 Carla Tannhauser, Caitlins Mutter

 William Clayton, Oliver Queens Sohn

 Tommy Merlyn, Sohn von Malcolm Merlyn, Bester Freund von Oliver Queen

 Joss Mardon, Joss Jackam, Josclyn Jackam, Weather Witch, Mark Mardons Tochter

 Lita, Tochter von Mick Rory

 Mrs. und Mrs. Dearborn, Sues Eltern

  Erde-38:

 Kara Danvers, Supergirl, eine Heldin

 Alex Danvers, ihre Adoptivschwester, Direktorin vom DEO

 J’onn J’onzz, Martian Manhunter, ein Detekiv

 Querl Dox, Brainiac-5, ein DEO-Agent

 James Olsen, Guardian, ein Held

 Winn Schott, ein ehemaliger DEO-Agent, in einer anderen Zeit

 Mon-El, Valor, Karas wahre Liebe, in einer anderen Zeit

 Clark Kent, Superman, Karas Cousin

 Lois Lane, Clarks Ehefrau, eine Reporterin

 Jonathan Samuel Kent, das Kind von Clark und Lois

 Lena Luthor, eine Wissenschaftlerin und ehemalige Freundin

 Eve Techmacher, ihre Assistentin

 Lex Luthor, Lenas Bruder, Supermans Nemesis

 Malefic J’onzz, J’onns Bruder

 Alura Zor-El, Karas Mutter

 Livewire, eine Feindin von Kara

  Andere:

 Emily, ein Mitschülerin von Iris

 Terry, eine Mitschülerin von Iris

 Ein leichtes Mädchen, angeheuer von Mick Rory

 Talia al Ghul, Assassine, Schwester von Nyssa

 Ra‘ s al Ghul, der Kopf des Dämons, Anführer der Liga der Assasinen, Vater von Nyssa und Talia

 Amanda Waller, Direktorin von Argus

 Kamadeva, ein Hindu-Gott, behauptet er zumindest

 Blonde Sense8, ein Opfer

 Halbierter Sense8, ein Opfer

 David Bowie, ein berühmter Musiker

 Edward Fyers, ein Söldner auf Lian Yu

 Jane Austen, eine Schriftstellerin

 Konane, ein Kope, eine Art Werwolf

 Harrison Wells Erde 1, ein Wissenschaftler

 Man in Black, ein Regierungsagent, scheinbar

 Anthony Ivo, ein Wissenschaftler, der vor nichts zurückschreckt

 Captain der Amazo, der Captain von Ivos Schiff

 Der Mörder, jemand hinter dem Ralph her ist

 Seine Frau, sein Opfer

 Arzt der Notaufnahme, nicht sehr hilfreich, wenn auch bemüht

 Pippa, ein Kind, Kundin von Nora

 Music Meister, ein Wesen aus einer anderen Dimension

 Bruce Wayne, Batman, aus einer anderen Dimension

 Clark Kent, Superman, von Erde-96

 Jefferson Pierce, Black Lightning, Held von einer anderen Erde

 Mick Rory auf der anderen Waverider, eine alternative Version von Mick

 Der Monitor, ein kosmisches Wesen

 Der Anti-Monitor, ein anderes kosmisches Wesen

#Arrowverse #Sense8-AU-Verse #legends of tomorrow #The Flash #Arrow

[jbgravereaux]

Anthony Davis has spent several years working on his new opera, “The Central Park Five,” which addresses race and judicial inequities through the prism of a real-life event that took place in 1989 and is now back in the headlines again. (Photo by Eduardo Contreras / The San Diego Union-Tribune)                                                                                                                                                    Donald Trump, opera star? Maybe so, in Anthony Davis ... : ...The characteristically intricate musical score by Davis draws from R&B, funk and hip-hop, as well as contemporary classical music and jazz. The cast of 12 singers is accompanied by an even larger instrumental ensemble, which includes a trumpeter (Hugh Ragin) and trombonist (Michael Dessen) whose parts will be freely improvised on stage.                                                                                                                               That they are performing in this genre-leaping new opera, in which the Trump of 30 years ago plays such an important part, is an unexpected example of art mirroring life...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ...It was in 1989 that five African-American and Latino teenagers in New York City were arrested and charged in the horrific Central Park beating and rape of Trisha Meili. A 28-year-old investment banker at the time, Meili was a graduate of Yale University, which is also Davis’ alma mater. In 2003, Meili wrote a book titled “I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility.” She is now married and still lives in New York City.                                                                                                                                                                                  Dubbed the Central Park Five, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam and Antron McCray ranged in age from 14 to 16 at the time of Meili’s brutal attack. They were found guilty and sentenced, despite their confessions having been coerced and despite the absence of any fingerprints, blood, semen or DNA evidence linking them to the crime. In 2002, they were exonerated and released from prison.                                                                                                                                                                                              Trump was, in 1989, a rising Big Apple real-estate magnate. Following the arrests that year of the Central Park Five, he took out full-page ads in several major New York newspapers. The ads read, in part: “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY. BRING BACK OUR POLICE!”                                                                                                                                                                                            Under that all-capital letter headline was a first-person, six-paragraph essay by Trump, who wrote: “Yes, I want to hate these murderers and I always will. I am not looking to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am looking to punish them. If the punishment is strong, the attacks on innocent people will stop. I no longer want to understand their anger. I want them to understand our anger. I want them to be afraid.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Davis, who in 1971 turned down an invitation to join the Grateful Dead, is now striving to humanize the Central Park Five in words and music.                                                                                                                                                            His goal is to give audiences a visceral sense of the five as teens and adults, their soul-sapping ordeal, lost adolescence and the human toll they paid before, and even after, being fully exonerated. The opera’s imminent Long Beach premiere comes barely two weeks after the Netflix debut of “When They See Us,” film director Ava DuVernay’s four-part series about the Central Park Five...

#Anthony Davis #The Central Park Five #Donald Trump #When They See Us #Ava DuVernay #Netflix

[noramoya]

June 13, 2005

“ THE VEREDICT OF MICHAEL JACKSON”

By David Walsh - June 15, 2005 -

“Michael Jackson's acquittal for sexual harassment to minors and related charges is completely welcome. Whether it is a sign of change of popular feelings or a more isolated episode, the decision of the jury of Santa Maria, California, to judge the singer NOT GUILTY of TEN CRIMES andFOUR MISDEMEANORS is appropriate, both from the legal and human points of view . In Contemporary America, unfortunately, rational and civil conclusions to these sordid episodes are far too infrequent.

In objective terms, the decision of the jury to acquit Jackson represent a pungent reprimand to the vengeful accusation LED by the District Attorney Of Santa Barbara, Thomas Sneddon, and supported by an ultra-right-attack-dogs. The verdict that rejects even the minors allegations, if the eight women and four men of the Jury were fully aware of the fact or not, it represents an indictment for the fraudulent and malicious character of the prosecution thesis. The Jury’s decision came in front of decisions by Judge Rodney Melville, who favored the District Attorney.

Jackson's acquittal also arises as an indictment of the dishonest role done by the American Mass Media, which have legitimized and tried to support the cause against the singer. The verdict stunned many media experts, who have done everything in their power to stigmatise and demonize Jackson in the last 18 months.

In the period immediately following the reading of the verdict, before the anchors-TV and the assorted pundits had the opportunity to bring their stories back directly, a number of television journalists admitted what none of them had admitted publicly before-that not There's never been a serious case against Jackson. However, the media approach quickly moved and tried to denigrate the meaning of the verdict, stressing the reserves of some jury members for Jackson's past behavior.

Even in this case, media managers and experts reveal their ignorance and instinctive hostility to elementary democratic principles. If the members of the jury have expressed reservations about Jackson's behavior or suspicions of bad conduct past, they did what they had to do: they listened to the evidence, discussed it between them and established that the accusation had not shown his case at Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt. It was this stubborn adherence to legal standards and democratic principles, including the presumption of innocence, which so irritated the legal institution and the models (of) Media, which have long discarded such membership.

Even if jackson had been guilty of sexual harassment, he would not have deserved the wild treatment received by the hand of the state and mass No humiliation is too big, no one debased is too complete for these forces.

Jackson appeared exhausted and on the brink of collapse for the end of the process, in the brutality of a Sneddon you see, in a microcosm, the character of the American Executive Class: ignorant, unconscious, tightened, who pursues without end anyone and anything that hints of opposition or "counterculture".

Why was Michael Jackson really under trial? Because his lifestyle is different, even bizarre, because he is perceived as gay, because he is black. In the paranoid, pornographic vision of the extreme right, whose perverse mental life deserves to be analyzed by a Freud, Jackson represents a provocation and a threat to "American values".

For Mainstream-media in the United States, a Jackson's process was a manna from heaven. Incapable and reluctant to present the truth about everything that matters, the mass media instinctively gravitate towards anything that corrupt the social environment. With the precipitating support of the Iraq war, as well as the national policies of George w. Bush, efforts to divert the attention of the population from the burning themes of the day becomes increasingly hectic.

The general reaction of the media to the verdict Jackson was mischievous, if not defamatory. A guest interviewed by fox news by Shepard Smith calls Jackson " the plastic monster " and claimed that " we need intelligence tests for the jurors." numerous commentators have equally asked sneddon, defender Thomas Mesereau and jurors Assorted If they don't believe a child molester has been released. Not only have they thrown out the window the presumption of innocence the window, but an acquittal unanimously adopted by a jury means nothing for these elements.

Nancy Grace, the former prosecutor, who poured, every night, out reactionary poison on CNN, barely contained herself on the Jackson verdict. Grace, who has declared her believe in Jackson's guilt for months, started her program: "It's clean square in a California Court Jury, Michael Jackson issued a verdict that stunned the nation: NOT GUILTY ON ALL FRONTS ! It was a 13-year-old boy, Hispanic who brought Michael Jackson to court. And tonight, he's not guilty,because of his celebrity" Grace has been inciting a Jury member, Paul Rodriguez, defiantly asking at some point: “What do you think would have been necessary to convince the Jury that Jackson molested this guy?"

...”Debra Opri, a lawyer for Jackson's parents, finally put Nancy Grace in her place, saying : “Well, this is the bitter pill you're trying to swallow, Nancy. This is reality, not the reality you created for the last year... Michael Jackson is NOT GUILTY. Let him live his life in peace and stop trying to try the case again, ‘cause that's what you're doing !"

As noticed above, the media seized comments from a juror in particular, Raymond Hultman, in the sense that even if there weren't enough evidence to condemn Jackson of the crime he was accused of, the singer had probably acted improperly with underage boys in the past .

This exchange between the co-Conductor Katie Couric of nbc''s today show and mesereau was:

Couric: some jurors are saying that this is a verdict of guilt, not a verdict of innocence. A Juror said he believes Michael Jackson molested other children, not just this. So is this the claim that Michael Jackson's supporters think it is?

Mesereau: Yes, it is. Macaulay Culkin came and testified that he was never touched. Mr.. Robinson testified that he was never touched. Mr.. Barnes testified he was never touched. I mean, they tried to promote Michael Jackson's behavior theories that collapsed just because they weren't true.

Couric: but does it seem troubling to you,

Mesereau: I think it's total rematch.

Couric: find troubling, though, Mr. Mesereau, that a juror is saying: "I think Michael Jackson molested children or molested children first"?

Mesereau: No. I don't find it worrying because we won the cause, and we should have won the case He is innocent.

Polls record that a majority continues to believe in Jackson's guilt. But where does the audience get the information from? As Defender Barry Scheck Annotated on the today show, the audience saw the process through the prism of the media, while the jury saw it directly.

The elaborate conspiracy charged by Sneddon, that Jackson kidnapped the family of his alleged victim and plotted to send them to Brazil, was proven to be absurd. Mesereau had no difficulty showing that the family had gone shopping during their alleged captivity, including the body's waxing for the mother of the then 13-Year-old boy and orthodontics works for the second daughter and his brother. Testimony indicated that the family was "escaped" and returned to Jackson's Neverland ranch for three times, once in a rolls-Royce, but did not ask for help.

Defense presented test elements, not disproved by the accusation, that the boy's mother had received a $ 152.000 liquidation from JC Penney after he accused the security guards of having her groping, when, in fact, the damage is Been caused by violent husband. Mesereau was able to portray the woman as an artist of the scam who had a story of attempts to extort money from celebrities for the son affected by cancer.

Jury members declared the press after the process that the boy's mother had a very unfavourable impression on them. During his testimony, the woman claimed that "Killer" threatened her during her alleged captivity and planned to take her children away in a balloon.

In some cases, the prosecution's moves exploded their front. Called By Sneddon, as a witness, Debbie Rowe, Jackson's ex-wife, turned out to be very favorable to the In his opening statement the district attorney promised the jurors that rowe would testify that a video recorded praising Jackson had been under pressure and that his appearance was completely written. When she appeared, The Rowe, who is engaged in a custody battle with Jackson, disowned this version of the facts and called the pop singer "my friend".

The prosecution presented several former Neverland collaborators on the witness bench who claimed that Jackson had tested a number of boys in the early 1990. S. Most of these witnesses had either sued or sold Jackson stories and, as Pointed out mesereau at couric, the guys who testified denied any impropriety.

The jurors who spoke to the media explained that the prosecution had never done simply a case. One of the jurors, a middle-aged mother, told the press, " the evidence said everything. We had a closet full of evidence that gave us back the same thing, that there weren't enough " to condemn. " things don't come back," he said.

In a statement that they had read to the judge in court, the jury of eight women and four men explained, " we the jury feel the weight of the eyes of the We have studied the testimonies, the tests, the rules and the procedures. We confidently come to our verdict. "

The jurors explained that while the process proceeded, they began to think less about Jackson as a celebrity. "even if he is a superstar, he is a human being", he explained a female juror. " to see it in the whole process, is a normal person. He made it real to my eyes. "

Rodriguez told abc good morning America that Jackson thanked them. " he looked towards us. In fact, I had a visual contact with him, while the last part of the verdict was read and made just a grimace said pretty openly, 'thank you' ".

Source: FB page "a Michael to know & all truths"

Modified by Arcoiris-15/6/2017, 02:15

[cooperhewitt]

Refocus

In celebration of the milestone 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards, this week’s Object of The Day posts honor National Design Award winners. A version of this post was originally published on October 1, 2014.

Throughout the history of photography, advances in technology—from daguerreotype to digital photography—have continued to propel the field forward. Recently, the technology behind the Lytro camera marked another advance in consumer photography since digital image capture was invented in 1975. Leveraging innovations in light-field photography, the Lytro camera enabled a photograph to be refocused innumerable times after the picture was taken. It represented the first time that the sequential steps required to take a photograph, in which the user focuses on the subject and pushes a button to record the image, changed. To do this, sensors in the Lytro camera not only registered the color and light coming through the lens the moment a photograph is recorded, as all digital cameras do, but also preserved information about the direction of the light’s source. This resulted in an image that was dynamic and could be constantly refocused.

Beyond its advances in photographic technology, this first-generation Lytro introduced a new archetype in the design of its consumer camera. Meant to be held like a spyglass, the camera’s housing (designed by 2013 National Design Award winners NewDealDesign) veered from the traditional point-and-shoot camera, typified by Raymond Loewy’s Purma Special camerafrom 1937. The pocket-sized Lytro camera had a rectangular prism shape, with two square end faces; one housed the lens and the other, an LCD touchscreen. From the touchscreen interface, users could refocus an image, scroll through images stored on the camera, delete images or upload them via a USB port. Recessed shutter release and zoom buttons were located on the top of the camera. A fixed f/2 aperture meant the shutter speed and ISO were automatically adjusted for each shot. The Lytro camera was a first-generation product that combined technological innovations in digital photography with a new design to reframe a user’s relationship to photographed images.

Since the launch of the camera, Lytro shifted its efforts to developing VR video and CGI-based VR technologies. The company closed in 2018.

Andrea Lipps is Associate Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt

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