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What should the next video be about?
🕑 Added 2024-05-12 22:05:33 +0000 UTCTime for a new poll! I will be leaving home for the summer next month and so will be away from my audio recording equipment, and would love to get another video out before that.
Here are the options (multiple choice is allowed!):
1) There’s an Italian movie about Friedrich Nietzsche called Beyond Good and Evil (1977) that I’d like to talk about simply because of how bizarre it is. This would be a (hopefully) more fun video, and I would talk about which parts of Nietzsche's life are portrayed accurately and where it deviates. The movie portrays Nietzsche as being a lot more sexually active than he probably was in real life, and also as a closeted gay man, which I could use as an opportunity to talk about Nietzsche’s sex life, and the debate around whether he was gay or not, as well as some of his complicated relationships and drug use.
2) French philosopher Henri Bergson nowadays is to a large extent forgotten, except as an influence on Deleuze. In his time, however, he was highly influential and well-known, on par with Albert Einstein in his popularity. There’s a lot that could be said about his vitalist ontology, his philosophy of time, his view of memory, etc. but in this video I would focus on one of his more amusing works - Laughter - in which Bergson pursues a fundamental understanding of what makes things funny, seeing the comic as stemming from the distinction between the organic and the mechanical, the living and the inanimate, spirit and matter. It’s not often that you see philosophers analyze the basis of the comic, and Bergson’s systematic attempt is quite interesting, even if perhaps outdated today. I would try to find some good examples to illustrate his points as well.
3) In some of his writings, Mark Fisher referred to what he called "popular modernism" - a cultural moment which in the UK included "the music press and the more challenging parts of public service broadcasting ... post-punk, brutalist architecture, Penguin paperbacks and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop." In his view, these phenomena were unique in that they combined mass culture or popular culture with modernist aesthetic standards and formal experimentation. I would use this concept to talk about the musical genre of post-punk, and the historical context behind it, connecting it to other aspects of modernist culture, such as brutalist architecture.
Looking forward to seeing your choices. Thank you!
Comments
Cuck Philosophy
Would've loved to but sadly I'll be in the US in July!
Kamil
Three very interesting topics, choosing between them will be very hard
Hadyn H. Gay Abbeysme
Are you going back to Litova ? I'll be there start of July maybe we should get a beer or st 👨🏼
