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Truth after Tsvetaeva
Having reflected on Tarkovsky's later film, I find a poem by Marina Tsvetaeva from before the revolution to be somewhat similar in nature.
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Reflections on Tarkovsky's Stalker
Why not face our nature? This 1979 masterpiece was shaped by the director's struggle with soviet censorship, from mere science fiction or religious allegory into something truly universal.
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From East to West, the Stars
Two poems I encountered toward the beginning and end of my formal education make for a humbling arc.
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Acts of Fact and Fetish
After reading Latour's "Cult of the Factish Gods," I think the truth is that we believe what we fear.
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Why the fetish?
Latour's «faitiche» ("factish") is normanesque trickery, and his "iconoclash" is an artsy rehash of Sombart's creative destruction.