“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Friday, January 6, 2012

Close Encounters

Having just had a nice lunch with Ian Bogost, I decided to watch some Close Encounters, a film we both seem to like quite a lot. In particular this was in honor of his Alien Phenomenology, which I held in my hands just now (the mock up). I'm struck by the excellent combination of Bartok, Ligeti, John Adams, Stravinsky and Debussy that John Williams achieved. I think my dad played on that.

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