Writer films are so hot right now.
Wilco: clearly not The Eagles (via Syntax of Things). Proof here.
“Up above the New York skyline, she saw a man dangling from a rope. It was a performance artist. The Falling Man. Lianne felt her guts cramp with poignancy. The image of the towers. He was falling. She was falling. And the critics would certainly fall for it.”
“Wole Soyinka…Wole Soyinka. I haven’t read anything by him, but when I was younger I used to say that name over and over to myself for some reason.”
The colonization of the mind is what allows society; also, our lives are defined by our stories.
“We think of tragedy as major, and comedy as minor. Brilliant comedies never win the best film Oscar. The Booker prize leans toward the tragic. In 1984, Martin Amis reinvented Rabelais in his comic masterpiece Money. The best English novel of the 1980s, it didn’t even make the shortlist.” (via AL Daily)
Serve philosophy of science: tell the nice people what your intuitions about mental states are.