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Paul Virilio's War and Cinema

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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The Cinematic Duplicity of Plato

Cinema is able somehow demonically to capture this without even any handiwork artists artisanal craftsmanship by an artist but it's, it's mere technological, like demonic possession of the thing. You know, you can imagine the language that Plato might use to speak about cinema in the very way that you see in the Republic and the sort of allegory of the cave which basically has a cinematic backdrop if you want to talk about it right. And then when he was in Plato in the end, right, he, Nietzsche's like, you know, Socrates was couldn't die fast enough he was happy to take that poison he was ready to go to his having of ideas. Right

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