objects don’t feel pain. they can’t die.
Category Archives: Dialectics
Weimar in L.A. (303)
Bertolt Brecht, “Hollywood Elegies”
I
The village of Hollywood was planned according to the notion
People in these parts have of heaven. In these parts
They have come to the conclusion that God
Requiring a heaven and a hell, didn’t need to
Plan two establishments but
Just the one: heaven. It
Serves the unprosperous, unsuccessful
As hell.
Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (415)
“The first entirely detourned film in the history of cinema”:
I Don’t Monkey Around (303/415/485)
Before I can start on you,
you have to be shaved clean and close. I perfected my own special technique before I was kicked out of the Medical Association. My method is based partly on calling a spade a spade. I don't monkey around. -Have you got the money? -Yeah, you want it now? Sam said you could afford $200. Put it on the table there. Ever see any botched plastic jobs? If a man like me didn't like a fellow... he could surely fix him up for life. Make him look like a bulldog or a monkey. I'll make you look older, but good. -I'll make you look as if you've lived. -I have, Doc. I hope I'm not a coward when you start in. We're all cowards.
Boardwork (415)
Quantity/Quality (425)
Quality and Quantity
Quality is the basic character or nature of something. Quantity is a variable amount of a thing, where the amount does not affect the quality (the basic nature) of what that thing is.
When the quantity of something changes, i.e. if a book has 100 pages as opposed to 50 pages, a quantitative change has occurred. There are times however, when the amount of change in a thing changes its very character. For example, if the book was reduced to one page, it is no longer a book. When change affects the very character of the thing, a qualitative change has occurred.
Subject/Object (415)
From a group work assignment a week ago:
Contradiction (415)
The flipside of underemployment is the intensification of labor.
The Frame
Othello
analepsis 