6 hours ago by kidaambi

Over a month ago, The Hindu dedicated its entire Sunday Magazine to articles on women emancipation. While some of the articles enlightened us about the real condition of women in our country and the impending need to address some important issues associated with it, most of the articles were nothing ...

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21 hours ago by Zach W.

On Feb. 11th, 2012, The Economist ran a story about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. ACTA is an international regime which seeks to protect intellectual property by "imposing civil and criminal penalties on internet piracy." In a sense, ACTA is like an international SOPA/PIPA. And m ...

Crossroads - blog.cybersecuritylaw.us · 1 reference

1 day ago by philcsc

PAMBUNGAD NA PAGPAPAKILALA SA SEMIOTIKA NI CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE Panayam ni E. San Juan, Jr. Tanyag sa buong mundo si Charles Sanders Peirce, Amerikanong dalubhasa sa pilosopiya’t agham (1839-1914), bilang imbentor ng “pragmatismo,” isang metodong sumisiyasat sa proseso ng pagpapakahulugan. Bagamat ...

THE PHILIPPINES MATRIX PROJECT - philcsc.wordpress.com · 18 references

1 day ago by A.R. Duckworth

In regard to fictional suspense, Carroll argues that the two logically opposed outcomes have a moral dimension. Carroll argues ‘In suspense fictions, the audience is provided, often aggressively, with a stake in one of the alternatives by having its moral sensibility drawn to prefer one of the uncer ...

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1 day ago by Edward Carney

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any commentary about film or television here. Toward the end of changing that, it seems worthwhile to point out that I recently finished watching the entire run of Twin Peaks. It was wonderfully compelling, in large part because of the skillful blend of soap-opera ...

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1 day ago by trotskyite

Vladimir Lenin, in his What Is To Be Done? states that “Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement”. I’m not going to argue with that. Despite the piteous cry many self-proclaimed “anarchists” might make, the simple fact of the matter is that the world will not suddenly tran ...

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1 day ago by Ardhendu De

"No poet, no artist of any sort, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists."- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) "Tradition and the Individual Talent" The poet must continually surrender himself to something which is m ...

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1 day ago by M.F. Corwin

This is as far as we can get on the assumption that the scholar and the man of taste are connected by nothing more than a common interest in literature. If this assumption is true, the high percentage of sheer futility in all criticism should be honestly faced, for the percentage can only increase w ...

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1 day ago by Ardhendu De

"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) "Tradition and the Individual Talent" T. S. Eliot questions the habit of praising a poet especially for those elements in his wo ...

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1 day ago by Ardhendu De

"A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) T.S. Eliot Selected Essays, "Religion and Literature" According to T. S. Eliot , the function of criticism is the exposition and elucidation of art and also correction of taste, and thereby promo ...

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