Tumblr (3.0; @philosophiedesalsob)http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2m7mg66y31qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Why don’t you dance</em>? A picture to describe the atmosphere of this story, from Simona.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/21260871331http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/21260871331Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:30:16 -0400<p>The search for non-narrative prose. Can in be?</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/3405068402http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/3405068402Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:09:00 -0500<p> That isn&#8217;t to say I want to criticize the critics but what I have seen recently is mostly the use of comics as a form of criticizing other art forms.  Going back to the film version of <em>Howl</em> nearly every review focuses on it as an act of criticism of the poem itself.   Then reading Davide Toffolo&#8217;s graphic novel <em>Pasolini</em> it becomes quite clear that Toffolo is expressing his own views on Pasolini&#8217;s general body of work.  What I want to know is: Where is this going?  Are comic books and graphic novels, or graphic novel films (which can become a discussion unto itself) becoming the future of literary criticism and theory?  And then, to what degree?  After having this perspective pushed in directly in front of me through these two texts I have begun to really see comics as having something to take up with the art forms that have preceded them.  Of course every piece of art does this, that is, has a relationship with the past, but something is different here.  Comics have come from being low art to high art, according to some,and along the way have seemingly picked up bits and pieces of each and every other art form.  No other art form includes so many kinds of media, aside from maybe opera, but no one is paying that much attention to opera any longer- at least as a new art form. </p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/2877076394http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/2877076394Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:01:55 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MVGoY9gom50?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Allen Ginsberg <em>Howl</em> Part I.  I just watched the new film version of this poem, or the story about this poem.  Even in Italian it is remarkable. </p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/1133349451http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/1133349451Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:11:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l70bghJKYG1qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l70bghJKYG1qb4zfyo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l70bghJKYG1qb4zfyo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l70bghJKYG1qb4zfyo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>I love this dirty city.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/938757132http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/938757132Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:24:16 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09z63lwqA1qb4zfyo1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09z63lwqA1qb4zfyo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09z63lwqA1qb4zfyo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l09z63lwqA1qb4zfyo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Piero della Francesca.  Various versions of the Madonna. Julia Kristeva’s <em>Stabat Mater</em> on my mind.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/492136266http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/492136266Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:39:39 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyix29bddA1qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Neighbourhood.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/416268951http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/416268951Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:25:21 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyhk8lSEL81qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Trinity Bellwoods.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/414811199http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/414811199Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:50:45 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky79jd0gl81qb4zfyo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/402839029http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/402839029Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:23:36 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/c2F-PNKrVHg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Eugenio Montale, I limoni.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/392267889http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/392267889Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:02:00 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxtl9fJEea1qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/388579162http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/388579162Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:10:27 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxtkepdP8B1qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Baseball team.  New Britain, Connecticut.  Around 1908.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/388555098http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/388555098Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:52:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hH9PhdK3mdQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Gabriele D’Annunzio.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386570175http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386570175Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:48:04 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3tqK5zQlCDQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>T.S. Eliot reads “The Waste Land.”  Following the better craftsman.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386556178http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386556178Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:38:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/v4aUnaCPR3s?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Pasolini interviews Giuseppe Ungaretti about “normal” and “abnormal” sexuality.  Ungaretti says we are all against nature, no one more than another. He says he is a poet, so he begins always by transgressing.</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386545693http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/386545693Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:32:16 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqpgqM8CQ1qb4zfyo1_250.jpg"/><br/> Walter Benjamin.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqpgqM8CQ1qb4zfyo2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqpgqM8CQ1qb4zfyo3_400.jpg"/><br/> Paul Klee.<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqpgqM8CQ1qb4zfyo4_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Walter Benjamin collection.  Going to work on thinking about collection and commodity. Benjamin holds that collections take objects out of usefulness.  He also compares the collector to the allegorist.  But aren’t allegories useful?</p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/385764719http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/385764719Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:48:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_5ZQXJNH8q4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/384204821http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/384204821Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:10:55 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxp118mlWW1qb4zfyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>From Pasolini’s <i>Il Vangelo secondo Matteo</i></p>http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/384193933http://philosophiedesalsob.tumblr.com/post/384193933Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:00 -0500Pasolini,nostalgia,history,Relgioncinema