Tag Archives: Speed

Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

By Steen | June 11, 2007

 
The masses are not a population, a society, but the multitude of passers-by. The revolutionary contingent attains its deal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words [...]

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David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

By Steen | June 7, 2006

A few notes from David Harvey’s excellent work The Condition of Postmodernity. In the following, I am mostly interested in his concept of time-space compression and the cultural and aesthetic responses to it.

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Peter Jackson, King Kong

By Steen | December 20, 2005

As some of my friends noted, this is really Lord of the Rings 4, stylistically speaking. This really shouldn’t be regarded negatively, since Peter Jackson has an amazing ability to blend different styles and yet make them his own and combine them into a unified look and feel. As so many other newer directors he [...]

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Mike Newell, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

By Steen | November 24, 2005

The new Harry Potter film does not reach the level of the third one, although it knocks the two first installments out of the ballpark. It is a fun rollercoaster ride of a movie that will not create any converts, but definitely entertain those who liked the first films and the books.

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