Iconoclasm literally means “image breaking” and refers to a recurring historical impulse to break ordestroy images for religious or political reasons. For example, in ancient Egypt, the carved visages of some pharaohs were obliterated by their successors; during the French Revolution, images of ki...
What does Levinas mean when he says that the face of the other puts my being into question? (2) By “face” Levinas meansthe human face(or in French, visage), but not thought of or experienced as a physical or aesthetic object. Rather, the first, usual, unreflective encounter with the...
On this note, the word “president” ultimately comes from the Latin praesidere, meaning “to sit before” or “to preside over”- hence a presiding officer sitting over some group. This gave rise to the Old French “President”, meaning “presiding over” or “leader”, and, in turn, ...
A little girl wants to take her dog for a walk, so she asks her mother whether she can take Lulu for a walk around the block. Her mother says “No, sweetie. Lulu is in heat.” “What does that mean?”, asks the girl. “Why don't you go and ask your dad in the garage?” ...
Well, stranger things have happened in this world. Like Himesh Reshammiya. And nasal singing. And sex on the beach. Oh, I mean naming a drink so.What? Noooo!Not literally?! Ok. Back. Now that is when I realized something profound. Especially when I was running and it hit me smack ...
Later NASA photographs (such as the one below) revealed greater erosion, less symmetry, and a much less human visage than Viking’s low-res cameras; it’s not a face at all, most now agree, just an oddly eroded mesa. Yet what matters for me is thememe, the haunting idea sparked by...
In what sense is this metaphor appropriate? 7.In “I address the student—whom I shall call allegorically Mr. Bright”, what does the word “allegory” mean? 8.From a particular case (Mr. Bright’s writing), the author turns to the general situation (ie. “many students like him). ...
I even probably do a few of them, but that does not mean that they aren't totally fucking stupid. When you put these shots in a vacuum and look at them on there own, you start to see how we are all basically playing ourselves online everyday. Some more than others, but I'm ...
familiar I got with Paris, I stood out on the subway: I might feel perfectly French riding the train, reading the advertisements in French and understanding the conductor, but when I got home and looked in the mirror, I knew my face was different from the diverse visages I saw in ...
Visage formed around Billy's, a club which in 1978 worshipped everything punk had supposedly destroyed: artifice, pomp, synthesizers, eyeliner. It was one of the key new romantic shrines, with all the angular haircuts and leather jackets with shoulder pads you'll still see slinking around ...