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Film Screening: Examined Life

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Tuesday June 22, 2010 23:59

by Eric - WSM

solidaritybooks at gmail dot com

Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street, Opposite Fionn Barras, Cork City

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District questioning our culture’s fixation on individualism.

And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West – perhaps America’s best-known
public intellectual – compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Runtime: 87 min

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responding to slavoj zizek on loving waste

by Dunk

Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:59

vid can be watched here - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/examined-life/

talking with a friend, here is 2 responses after lithuanian slavoj zizek:

1 - paul hawken and the growth of movements of movements without central ideology, a diverse organic system that is growing to heal the effects of political shite, environmental destruction:

Global Eco Forum (S22-O17) – Times of profound ecological change
http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/globa...orum/

2 - regarding how movements are building and acting:

(Copenhagen ’09) Reclaim Power, that talk, that “riot”, that action, the consequences
http://itsafunnyoldworld.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/recla...ower/

Caption: Video Id: NzMPUKAXM7U Type: Youtube Video
Paul Hawken: Blessed Unrest

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