Monthly Archives: January 2007

Mel Gibson, Apocalypto

By Steen | January 27, 2007

Mel Gibson is clearly fascinated by violence and blood. Just as, even if implicitly, The Passion of the Christ showed how civilization was born in blood, so does Apocalypto show how civilization dies in blood.
The film opens with a quote: “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.” [...]

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Steven Lukes, The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

By Steen | January 23, 2007

This is a book that I know I don’t fully understand, but it really doesn’t matter. The reason I don’t understand it, is the fact that it deals extensively with philosophy, primarily moral and political. This is a subject that I only have cursory knowledge of, but the novel is still fabulously funny.

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Viral Connectivity: Culture, Society, Technology

By Steen | January 16, 2007

I’ve applied for a Fellowship at Cambridge, funded by Danish brewery Carslberg. We’ll see how it goes. So far, here is the project description I sent them.
The spaces and borders of cultural life are currently breaking down, being transgressed and challenged. No longer can we easily divide our lives into private and public spheres, real [...]

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