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Technocratic Totalitarianism: One-Dimensional Thought in Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville
“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.” — Herbert Marcuse
Author: Maximilian Yoshioka
Maximilian Yoshioka is an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, where he is pursuing a double major in philosophy and international relations. His interests lie primarily in the relationship between philosophy, art, and politics, and the ways in which they can be combined to enrich and challenge our conceptions of reality. He is originally from London but currently lives in Los Angeles.
Norwegian Nihilism: On Joachim Trier’s Oslo August 31st
“Yet the film itself also hints at a way of being that exists outside of this paradigm, one that abandons the search for universal truth and instead prioritizes immediate phenomenological experience.”
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Asian · Historical & Epic · War
History or Humanity? On Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death: A Nietzschean Perspective on Nanjing
“The monumental approach, as one would guess, takes history as something to be inspired by, as a record of human greatness that serves to encourage similar greatness by individuals in future times; in the case of City of Life and Death, it is the various acts of compassion and solidarity that play this role.”
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