spacetwo : patalab

“…The dancers simultaneously undergo a relationship with their body as Other, with the crowd that watches, and with the Other as a set of symbolic codes and rules inscribed in the Amalienborg situation. This interpellation asks him or her to fulfill ...

“… On the level of the Real, movement can be conceived as jouissance: as that which is more than sense, that which exhausts meaning in movement. Because it will always be more than meaningful and readable, one can enjoy the moving body…” Sam R. ...

”..There is no such thing as chance. Chance would be a negation of the law of causality, which demands that even the temporal meeting of two separate causal chains still has a cause. Chance would destroy the possibility of life . . . It would nullify ...

“… What is the use of remembering? Live Now! Live now! But my only reason for remembering is to live now. Increase of what is worth knowing, decrease of the capacity to absorb it, every day he gains a drop less, more and more drips past him drain ...

“…We did not really enjoy ourselves. When we got back home, I found a strange handkerchief in my pocket. Heaven knows how it had ended up there… The strange thing about it all was that after having seen the elagnt race horses, I met on my way home ...

“…There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well ...

Renseiw (perhaps without wishing to) has enriched, by means of a new technique, the hesitant and rudimentary art of watching films: the technique is one of deliberate anachronism and erroneous attributions. This technique, with its infinite applications, ...

What attracts me in such a manner of seeing is that, as far as the eye can see, it recreates desire . . . It is only by making evident the intimate relation linking the two terms real and imaginary that I hope to break down the distinction, which seems ...

” But when the restraining influence of the school was at a distance I began to hunger again for wild sensations, for the escape which those chronicles of disorder alone seemed to offer me. The mimic warfare of the evening became at last as wearisome ...

…”Most contemporary semioticians regard rhetoric (or at least aspects of it) as falling within the domain of semiotics. The study of what Saussure called 'the role of signs as part of social life' could not exclude the ancient art of persuasion. ...

Sensus communis is originally a Roman notion of the shared ‘communal sense’ that facilitates communicative understanding. The most important philosophers of the modern age who have discussed it at length are Giambattista Vico, Anthony, Earl of ...

The first exercise for the viewer, is to figure out what the meta-levels of the concept of Being are and to see if you can think each one in turn, and whether you can think the fifth and higher meta-levels of Being...It turns out that by applying the ...

"...As to the interpretations of the quantum paradoxes, we emphatically endorse the discovery that consciousness creates reality, when it triggers the collapse of Schrödinger's function, turning actual (real) what was only a potential existence ...

According to Ayurveda, being in balance means that we live in tune with our particular nature, which we are each born with. Being in balance means our body mobilizes its own perfectly attuned defense system to keep us well. It seems implicit in Ayurvedic ...

The philosopher Wilfred Sellars once characterized philosophy as aiming "to understand how things, in the broadest possible sense of the term, hang together, in the broadest possible sense of the term" . Applied to the philosophy of cognitive science, ...

Bicyclists, because of their size and life cycle, are among the most vulnerable species regarding the presence of obstacles on motorways. During a study of the efficiency of two types of bicycles passes, the behaviour of migrating Copenhagen bicycles was ...

Next week on 'The Golden Age of Ballooning', Patalab will examine the work of Girlsher and Coxwell, the English balloonists who ascended to a height of seven miles in 1862 without washing. There's also a record of someone reading the book of 'The Golden ...

“…Films are even stranger [than theater], for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown…There are people who barely write poetry, and they are generally ...

Although images of faces have long been employed in the scientific study of emotion, the objectives and assumptions motivating their use have shifted according to the various fields and research programs within which they have been put to use. This short ...