April 2011
8 posts
Corpse Disposal and the 'Imago Dei'
Calif. Lawmakers Seek Liquefaction as Alternative to Cremation
Apr 28, 2011 – 5:20 PM By Tori Richards
It sounds like the stuff of horror movies — placing a body in a steel tube and then covering it with a mixture of water and acid until most of the remains are liquefied. But it’s actually a scientific process called alkaline hydrolysis that is on track toward becoming an alternative...
Simulacrum Symmetry
The Real, The Unreal, The HyperReal.
Along the lines of several of my earlier posts http://profetcetera.tumblr.com/post/4268450329
http://profetcetera.tumblr.com/post/3946206062
And this exceedingly creepy video which I posted on March 7:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/eZlLNVmaPbM
….Comes yet another example of the ‘Uncanny Valley Effect.’
Read the...
Quiet.
Too Loud, Too Old
By Christopher Orlet on 4.14.11 @ 6:07AM ‘The American Spectator’
Saturday morning I was rocketed out of bed by the usual wake-up screech of a car alarm. For a moment, I was poised to reach for my Louisville Slugger and do a “Rectifier” on the offending automobile (if you don’t get the reference, it’s from the Henry Bean film Noise). In...
Government Food, Government Schools, and Nietzsche
From the Chicago Tribune
Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home
To encourage healthful eating, Chicago school doesn’t allow kids to bring lunches or certain snacks from home — and some parents, and many students, aren’t fans of the policy
By Monica Eng and Joel Hood, Tribune reporters
3:42 a.m. CDT, April 11, 2011
A Little Village Academy student cringes at an enchilada...
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No comment on this one.
Too dangerous.
This is a 45 minute talk...
My Recent Interview with 'Christianity Today'
A while back I was interviewed about my book “Meaning at the Movies” by CT. This is the online version of the print issue from last month.
I will warn you: I *hate* print interviews, and while most of this one was fine, by the time the editors were done with it, there were a few statements attributed to me that are simply fictional! For example, shockingly enough, my...
How Many Dimensions is Too Many Dimensions?
Unsatisfied with reality, unfulfilled by genuine life experience, yet driven by our love of narrative and of visual attraction, we created the simulacrum ‘reality’ of movies. And there were movies. And we saw that they were good. (Well, some of them…)
But movies were not enough. Because, as much as movies were, they were ‘flat’ —...
