Total Eclipse

Not normally one for posts dedicated to movie reviews (hell, not really one to post at all nowadays), but I just got back from seeing Waltz with Bashir, and I feel like I need to let something out on the proverbial page else I explode with indigestion. First off, it’s an amazing film, go watch [...]

The following is a translation of a paper I wrote for my Techno-Utopia & Cyberculture course from 2 semesters ago. Enjoy: The issue of Personal Identity is a complex subject, which raises many difficult questions. What is a Person? That which thinks the thoughts I have? Is it identical to my body? Is it my [...]

Tom n’ Jerry cartoons get a makeover. It seems the latest program in revisionist Orwellian historiography is to edit out scenes in vintage cartoons in which the main characters smoke, in a manner which is not depicted as a blatant mistake or wrongdoing. Villians in the show will still be allowed to keep their fags. [...]

“The Public Eye,” or perhaps more properly called “The Community View” is something I’ve been tossing around my head recently. Right after the violent events described here, images, blog reports, messageboard posts and videos started popping all over the Israeli scenester netsphere, clearly detailing the police actions. A fellow raver reports that “Anyone without a [...]

I received in my Academic mailbox today a short questionnaire for a statistics student asking me, quite simply for my gender, date of birth, date of birth of a significant other or close friend, and do I believe in astrology on a scale of 1 (not at all) to 5 (very much so). I answered [...]

This is a paper I wrote for my course in Order, Chaos and Complexity (given by the wonderfully -talented but stingy on the grade Dr. Yoav Ben-Dov, who I wholeheartedly recommend studying with if you ever have the chance). I figured since it was in English, I may as well post it here for posterity. [...]

Tags: grim+meathook+future, future, gmf, israeli-arab conflict, middle east, war I’m writing this post instead of studying for my exam tomorrow. Which is as good an excuse as any. Today in Advanced Social Psychology, we had a guest lecturer; Sociologist Mr. Ahmed Chijazi from Neve Shalom who gave a talk about Interaction of Identity in the [...]

Yesterday I attended a symposium by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics on the subject of Synaesthesia; Seeing the Voices: A multi-disciplinary view of Synaesthesia and Cross-modal Transfers. Speakers included Roland Posner (TU – Berlin), Daniel Algom (My psychophysics and cogpsy prof.), Gerald C Cupchik (University of Toronto), and others. It was particularly interesting [...]

Shakespeare in the bush by Laura Bohannan (from Natural History, Aug/Sept. 1966) Just before I left Oxford for the Tiv in West Africa, conversation turned to the season at Stratford. “You Americans,” said a friend, “often have difficulty with Shakespeare. He was, after all, a very English poet, and one can easily misinterpret the universal [...]