Does the above quote by Deleuze apply to Theatre? Or better yet: can it apply to theatre as an art form? I think it does apply. The state of contemporary theatre ranges roughly from the profit-driven musicals on Broadway to the more independent, thought-provoking theatre pieces. Yet theatre, as with any other art, is plagued →
Let’s face it: I love theory. I live for it, I crave it, and desire it. I’m a theory head. A theory junky. Yet there are some theories which are just plain idiotic and have no merit: I’m talking about conspiracy theories. What are conspiracy theories? How are they different from other theories? And perhaps →
What is revolution? The question, I think, deserves to be asked now, when capitalism is at a crucial time in its history. The Western culture has turned the notion of revolution into something of a cliché, a reproduced image that circulates through various media outlets and as a result, is exhausted. The very idea of →
“When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.” –Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone” “What a swamp the world could become without the call of socialism, the hope of socialism, and the ‘danger’ of socialism.” -Mansoor Hekmat What is going on today? The on-going global financial crisis signalled the fragility of liberal-democratic capitalism, not →
Frankenstein is probably the most popular horror icon in all of English literature, perhaps only rivaled by Dracula. When we usually think of Frankenstein, we think of either Boris Karloff or some bad rendition of the story. Suffice it to say, no one in popular culture actually talks about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the novel that →
Ever since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I have been a huge Joss Whedon fan. Whedon’s witty dialogue got me hooked on Buffy and Angel, Firefly had space cowboys (enough said) and, well, now Dollhouse is just badass. Yet, throughout his entire corpus, Whedon is dealing with concrete philosophical and existential questions. Following a Sartrean line →
What is Elitism? The terms ‘elitism’ and ‘elitist’ are thrown around a lot these days. Phrases such as: “That’s so elitist!” are a charge many (including myself) use to critique others, but what do these mean exactly? What is elitism? In order to properly grasp the meaning behind the use of the term, we must →
What’s In A Name? Why do we label things? Name things? The simple and obvious answer to this is that we, as intelligent beings, need to categorize and name objects, people, places, ideas—in short our whole world—in order to function. Labels aid in our daily functioning, so to speak, yet, how does meaning function in →
Shakespeare is so elitist. It is so canonized that it has become a subject of political critique. English departments do still teach the Bard, but it is received as an example of high culture, rather than an actual art. Most of us today would rather read Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill than subject ourselves to →
A spectre is haunting Western societies- the spectre of Political Incorrectness. All the Powers of old Western liberal societies have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spectre: multicultural liberals (for whose agenda is to create a space of inclusiveness through advocating the of ‘tolerance’ of the Other), proponents of cultural pluralism/relativism, various members →
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.” –Friedrich Nietzsche The Toronto Transhumanist Association is an organization which strives to promote proactive thinking about the ethical nature of technology in relation to →
There are some human experiences that cannot be so easily communicated through mere words and language. This problem of intelligibility, that is the complexity of communicating some kind of meaning or experience exists everywhere in our modern wor online pharmacy cialis ld. A prime example of this form of incomprehensibility is the short story The →