• 90s Berlin (Berlin)
  • David Hockney!!
jul 3 2019 ∞
oct 14 2019 +
nov 24 2018 ∞
nov 24 2018 +

No, of course not. Because what is scientific knowledge, you know? Who decides what scientific knowledge is? Do you have to be a climate scientist to have scientific knowledge or do you have to have enough information? Who decides who’s qualified to decide what the right policy is? Because at the end of the day, the scientist cannot tell us what is the best approach to deal with climate change.

oct 11 2018 ∞
oct 23 2018 +

Readings

  • Locke

Lectures

  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...
  • Introductory Lecture
  • Natural Law Roots of the Social Contract Tradition
  • Origins of Classical Utilitarianism
  • Lecture 5 Classical Utilitarianism and Distributive Justice
  • Lecture 6 From Classical to Neoclassical Utilitarianism
  • Lecture 7 The Neoclassical Synthesis of Rights and Utility
  • Lecture 8 Limits of the Neoclassical Synthesis
  • Lecture 9 The Marxian Challenge
  • Lecture 10 Marx's Theory of Capitalism
  • Lecture 11 Marxian Exploitation and Distributive Justice
aug 30 2017 ∞
feb 3 2018 +
  • Bleak Moments 1971
  • High Hopes (1988)
  • Life Is Sweet 1990
  • Naked (1993)
  • Secrets & Lies 1996
  • Career Girls (1997)
  • Topsy-Turvy 1999
  • All or Nothing (2002)
  • Vera Drake 2004
  • Happy-Go-Lucky 2008
  • Another Year 2010
  • Mr. Turner (2014)
  • Peterloo (2018)

Short films

  • The Short and Curlies (1987)
  • A Sense of History (1992)
  • A Running Jump (2012)

Television films

  • Hard Labour (1973)
aug 20 2017 ∞
mar 7 2020 +
  • Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye (1813-1855):  Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400):  Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales
  • Spenser, Edmund (c.1552-1599):  Prothalamion, The Faerie Queene
  • Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679):  Leviathan
  • Locke, John (1632-1704):  Letter Concerning Toleration, Of Civil Government, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Thoughts Concerning Education
  • Milton, John (1608-1674):  Paradise Lost
  • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616):  Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Anthony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Sonnets
  • Berkeley, George (1685-1753):  Principles of Human Knowledge
  • Boswell, James (1740-1795):  Journal, Li...
dec 22 2016 ∞
oct 7 2017 +
  • Plautus, Titus Maccius (254-184 BC) :  Amphitryon, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi, Casina, Cistellaria, Curculio, Epidicus, Menaechmi, Mercator, Miles Gloriosus, Mostellaria, Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus
  • Cato the Elder, Marcus Porcius (234-149 BC) : De Agri Cultura
  • Terence = Publius Terentius Afer (195-159 BC) : Adelphoe, Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos, Hecyra, Phormio
  • Anonymous (c.85 BC) : Rhetorica ad Herennium
  • Caesar, Gaius Iulius (100-44 BC) : Commentarii de bello Gallico, Commentarii de bello civili
  • Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 BC) : Carmina
  • Cornelius Nepos (c.100-25 BC) : De viris illustribus libri XVIII
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
  • Anonymous (c.1100) : Le Roman d'Alexandre
  • Anonymous (c.1100) : Le Roman de Thèbes
  • Anonymous (c.1100) : Le Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange
  • Richard le Pèlerin (c.1100) : La Chanson d'Antioche
  • Anonymous (c.1140) : Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne
  • Anonymous (c.1160) : Le Roman d'Enéas
  • Anonymous (c.1180) : Fierabras, Aspremont
  • Anonymous (c.1200) : Ysopet et Avionnet
  • Anonymous (c.1200) : Renaud de Montauban ou Les Quatre Fils Aymon, Raoul de Cambrai, Doön de Mayence, Ogier le Danois, Gormont et Isembart
  • Anonymous (c.1200) : Garin le Loherain, Hervis de Metz, Gerbert de Metz, Anseïs fils de Girbert
  • Anonymous (c.1250) : Ami et Amile, Jourda...
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
jan 8 2017 ∞
mar 19 2020 +

December 2019

  • Kalevi Aho - Theremin Concerto
dec 18 2019 ∞
dec 18 2019 +
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • 3 Women (1977)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)
  • A Hard Day's Night (1964)
  • A Sunday in the Country (1984)
  • A Tale of Winter (1992)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  • A Woman's Tale (1992)
  • A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
  • Ace in the Hole (1951)
  • After Dark, My Sweet
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  • Alien (1979)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • Amadeus (1984)
  • Amarcord (1974)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
aug 25 2019 ∞
mar 7 2020 +
  • 1962: Herakles (Kurzfilm, 12 Minuten)
  • 1964: Spiel im Sand
  • 1967: Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreutz (Kurzfilm)
  • 1967: Lebenszeichen
  • 1968: Letzte Worte
  • 1969: Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika (Kurzfilm, 45 Minuten)
  • 1969: Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker
  • 1970: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen
  • 1971: Behinderte Zukunft
  • 1971: Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit
  • 1971: Fata Morgana
  • 1972: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
  • 1974: Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner (Kurzfilm, 45 Minuten)
  • 1974: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
  • 1976: Stroszek
  • 1976: Herz aus Glas
may 17 2018 ∞
jan 31 2019 +
  • Dream Wife
  • Wolf Alice
  • Sharon Van Etten
  • The Be Good Tanyas
  • Myslovitz
  • Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  • Dirty Projectors - The Glad Fact
  • Sun Lux - We are rising
  • Actress - Ghettoville
  • The Flaming lips
  • Dirty projectors - Rise above
  • Echo and The Bunnymen. Songs To Learn And Sing
  • Joy Division
  • Gang of Four
  • Julian Cope
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Agar Agar
  • Marlon Williams
  • Grouper
  • Aldous Harding
sep 23 2017 ∞
dec 12 2018 +

Humanities

aug 1 2014 ∞
jul 12 2019 +
  • 1965 This Night
  • 1966 The City Tramp
  • 1966/67 The Little Chaos
  • 1969 Love Is Colder Than Death
  • 1969 Katzelmacher
  • 1970 Gods of the Plague
  • 1970 The Coffee House
  • 1970 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
  • 1970 The American Soldier
  • 1970 The Niklashausen Journey (de)
  • 1971 Rio das Mortes
  • 1971 Pioneers in Ingolstadt (de)
  • 1971 Whity
  • 1971 Beware of a Holy Whore
  • 1972 The Merchant of Four Seasons
  • 1972 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
  • 1972–1973 Eight Hours Are Not a Day
  • 1972 Bremen Freedom
  • 1973 Jail Bait 
  • 1973 World on a Wire
  • 1974 Nora Helmer
dec 22 2016 ∞
sep 8 2018 +
  • Anonymous (c.1300) : Cento Novelle
  • Cavalcanti, Guido (c.1250-1300) : Donna me prega
  • Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) : Divine Comedy, New Life, De vulgari eloquentia, De monarchia
  • Polo, Marco (1254-1324) : The Travels
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) : Decameron, De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, De mulieribus claris
  • Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) : Canzoniere, Sonnets, Secretum, De Viris Illustribus, Rerum Memorandarum Libri, De Otio Religiosorum, De Vita Solitaria, De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae
  • Sacchetti, Franco (c.1335-1400) : Novelle
  • Villani, Giovanni (1275-1348) : Nuova Cronica
  • Bello, Francesco (Cieco of Ferrara) (c.1475) : Mambriano
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
  • Anonymous (c.870) : Hildebrandslied, Muspilli
  • Anonymous (c.1180) : Nibelungenlied
  • Anonymous (c.1190) : Kudrun
  • Anonymous (c.1150) : Kaiserchronik oder Der Keiser und der Kunige Buoch
  • Dietmar von Aist (fl.c.1140-1171) : Lieder
  • Eilhart von Oberge (fl.c.1180) : Tristrant
  • Friedrich von Hausen (c.1150-1190) : Lieder
  • Heinrich von Morungen (c.1200) : Lieder
  • Heinrich von Veldeke (c.1185) : Eneasroman
  • Konrad der Pfaffe (c.1170) : Das Rolandslied
  • Reinmar von Hagenau (d.1210) : Lieder
  • Anonymous (c.1220) : Sachsenspiegel
  • Anonymous (c.1250) : Rosengarten zu Worms
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
  • Anonymous (c.750) : Beowulf
  • Anonymous (c.1375) : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400) : Troilus and Criseyde, Canterbury Tales
  • Gower, John (1330-1408) : Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
  • Langland, William (c.1400) : Piers the Plowman
  • Malory, Sir Thomas (c.1470) : Morte D'Arthur
  • Bunyan, John (1628-1688) : Pilgrim's Progress
  • Foxe, John (1516-1587) : Book of Martyrs
  • Marlowe, Christopher (1563-1594) : Doctor Faustus , Edward II, Tamburlaine
  • Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586) : Arcadia
  • Spenser, Edmund (c.1552-1599) : Faerie Queene
  • Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) : Essays
  • Donne, John (1572–1631) : Complete Engl...
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
  • Top Books about NY
  • In the City of Love's Sleep by Lavinia Greenlaw
  • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/j...
  • Rachel Ingalls
  • Bear by Marian Engel
  • Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska
  • Patrizia Cavalli
  • Paolo Borgognone - Generazione Erasmus
  • Murray- Mountaneering in Scotland
  • Euripide - Bacchae
  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
  • Best Thought, Worst Thought: Aphorisms on Art, Sex, Work and Death
  • A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
  • How to Be Both
  • Unto This Last and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
  • Illness as Metaphor
  • Inferno (a poet's novel)
mar 5 2016 ∞
apr 14 2019 +
  • Fiction

Squeeze Play (1984) (Written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin) The New York Trilogy (1987) City of Glass (1985) Ghosts (1986) The Locked Room (1986) In the Country of Last Things (1987) Moon Palace (1989) The Music of Chance (1990) Auggie Wren's Christmas Story (1990) Leviathan (1992) Mr. Vertigo (1994) Timbuktu (1999) The Book of Illusions (2002) Oracle Night (2003) The Brooklyn Follies (2005) Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) Man in the Dark (2008)[34] Invisible (2009)[35] Sunset Park (2010)[36] Day/Night (2013) [n 1]4 3 2 1 (2017)[37]

  • Poetry

Unearth (1974) Wall Writing (1976) Fragments from the Cold (1977) Facing the Music (1980) Disappearances: Selected Poems (1988) Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essa...

sep 17 2019 ∞
sep 17 2019 +
  • Nie wieder Dschihadist
  • Im Weihnachtsstress
  • „Die Manns“ – eine Familiengeschichte
  • Nichtraucher dank Hypnose
  • In der Kochschule: Kochen ist keine Kunst
  • Wer übernimmt den Familienbetrieb?
  • Der Holocaust im Unterricht
  • Wilhelm Busch – ein Meister der Ironie
  • Die Deutschen und der Alkohol
  • Golf – ein elitärer Sport?
  • Lernen an der Universität
  • Auf Schnäppchenjagd
  • Naumburgs schöne Gräfin
  • Liebesschlösser
  • Der Steinkohlebergbau in Deutschland
  • Der Sonntag im Wandel der Zeit
  • Spitze – ein kostbares Produkt
  • Ab zum TÜV
  • Über den Müßiggang
jun 12 2019 ∞
jun 30 2019 +
  • 1975 The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum)
  • 1978 The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages)
  • 1979 Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder die Balance des Glücks)
  • 1981 Marianne and Juliane (Die bleierne Zeit) Also known by the English title of Two German Sisters
  • 1983 Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn)
  • 1986 Rosa Luxemburg
  • 1988 Felix Segment "Eva"
  • 1988 Love and Fear (Fürchten und Lieben / Paura e amore)
  • 1990 The African Woman (Die Rückkehr / L'africana)
  • 1993 The Long Silence (Zeit des Zorns / Il lungo silenzio)
  • 1995 The Promise (Das Versprechen)
may 17 2018 ∞
may 17 2018 +
  • 1 Introduction - 01:22:44
  • 2 The Odyssey- Bks 1-11- Part A - 01:04:37
  • 3 The Odyssey- Bks 1-11- Part B - 14:19
  • 4 The Odyssey- Bks 12-24- Part A - 01:14:22
  • 5 The Odyssey- Bks 12-24- Part B - 14:52
  • 6 The Odyssey- Bks 12-24- Part C - 01:15:33
  • 7 The Oresteia- Agamemnon- Part A - 01:22:19
  • 8 The Oresteia - Agamemnon - con't - 01:22:15
  • 9 The Oresteia- Agamemnon - Libation Bearers - 01:21:13
  • 10 The Oresteia- Eumenides - 01:18:07
  • 11 The Oresteia- Eumenides- Part A - 01:23:59
  • 12 The Oresteia- Eumenides- Part B - 01:19:17
  • 13 The Aeneid- Bks I,IV,VI- Part A - 01:1...
mar 12 2018 ∞
sep 27 2018 +

Lectures

  • Lecture 1 Course Introduction
  • Lecture 2 The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism
  • Lecture 3 Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part I
  • Lecture 4 Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II
  • Lecture 5 Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part III: Free Will and Near-Death Experiences
  • Lecture 6 Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
  • Lecture 7 Plato, Part II: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul
  • Lecture 8 Plato, Part III: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)
  • Lecture 9 Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)
  • Lecture 10 Personal Identity, Part I: Ide...
sep 30 2017 ∞
oct 1 2017 +
  • Introduction
  • Introduction (cont.)
  • Ways In and Out of the Hermeneutic Circle
  • Configurative Reading
  • Lecture 5 The Idea of the Autonomous Artwork
  • Lecture 6 The New Criticism and Other Western Formalisms
  • Lecture 7 Russian Formalism
  • Lecture 8 Semiotics and Structuralism
  • Lecture 9 Linguistics and Literature
  • Lecture 10 Deconstruction I
  • Lecture 11 Deconstruction II
  • Lecture 12 Freud and Fiction
  • Lecture 13 Jacques Lacan in Theory
  • Lecture 14 Influence
  • Lecture 15 The Postmodern Psyche
  • Lecture 16 The Social Permeability of Reader and Text
  • Lecture 17 The Frankfurt School of Critic...
aug 30 2017 ∞
aug 30 2017 +
  • Crisi (Kris) (1946)
  • Piove sul nostro amore (Det regnar på vår kärlek) (1946)
  • La terra del desiderio (Skepp till India land) (1947)
  • Musica nel buio (Musik i mörker) (1947)
  • Città portuale (Hamnstad) (1948)
  • La prigione (Fängelse) (1949)
  • Sete (Törst) (1949)
  • Verso la gioia (Till glädje) (1949)
  • Ciò non accadrebbe qui (Sånt händer inte här) (1950)
  • Un'estate d'amore (Sommarlek) (1951)
  • Donne in attesa (Kvinnors väntan) (1952)
  • Monica e il desiderio (Sommaren med Monika) (1953)
  • Una vampata d'amore (Gycklarnas afton) (1953)
  • Una lezione d'amore (En lektion i kärlek) (1954)
may 1 2012 ∞
aug 29 2016 +
  • 1951 Day of the Fight
  • 1951 Flying Padre
  • 1953 Fear and Desire The Seafarers
  • 1955 Killer's Kiss
  • 1956 The Killing
  • 1957 Paths of Glory
  • 1960 Spartacus
  • 1962 Lolita
  • 1964 Dr. Strangelove
  • 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 1971 A Clockwork Orange
  • 1975 Barry Lyndon
  • 1980 The Shining
  • 1987 Full Metal Jacket
  • 1999 Eyes Wide Shut
  • 2001 A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +
  • Homer (9th c. BC) : The Iliad, The Odyssey
  • Hesiod (8th c. BC) : Theogonie, Homerica
  • Aesop (6th c. BC) : Fables
  • Aeschylus (c.525-456 BC) : The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants,__The Oresteia (= Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)__, Prometheus Bound
  • Aristophanes (c.448-380 BC) :  The Acharnians, The Knights, The Clouds, The Wasps, Peace, The Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, The Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, Wealth
  • Euripides (c.485-406 BC) : Alcestis, Medea, Trojan Women, The Bacchae , Cyclops, Andromache, Electra, Iphigenia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis
  • Herodotus (c.484-425 BC) : The Histories
  • Hippocrates (c.460-c.377 BC) : The Hippocratic Corpus
  • Pindar (522-438 BC) : Odes
  • Sophocles (c.495-406 BC) : Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Ele...
dec 22 2016 ∞
jun 27 2018 +
  • Angelo, J. A. (2007). Robotics: a reference guide to the new technology. Libraries Unlimited. -
  • Brain, M. (2003). Robotic nation.
  • Breazeal, C. (2004). Social interactions in HRI: the robot view. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,
  • Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, 34(2), 181-186.
  • Broekens, J., Heerink, M., & Rosendal, H. (2009). Assistive social robots in elderly care: a
  • review. Gerontechnology, 8(2), 94-103.
  • Darling, K. (2012, April). Extending legal rights to social robots. In We Robot Conference,
  • University of Miami, April.
  • Dyer-Witheford, N. (1999). Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-technology
  • Capitalism. – University of Illinois Pr...
jan 13 2017 ∞
aug 26 2017 +
  • Anonymous (c.1190) : The Lay of the Host of Igor
  • Anonymous (c.1300) : The Life of Alexander Nevsky
  • Anonymous : Bylinas Collections
  • Afanasy Nikitin (?-1472) : The Journey Beyond Three Seas
  • Fonvizin, Denis Ivanovich (1744-1792) : The Minor, The Brigadier General
  • Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1711-1765) : Collected Poems
  • Radishchev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (1749-1802) : Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
  • Sumarakov, Aleksandr Petrovich (1717-1777) : Khorev, Dmitry Samozvanets, Fables
  • Checkov, Anton (1860-1904) : Collected Short Stories
  • Derzhavin, Gavrila Romanovich (1743-1816) : Collected Poems
  • Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhaylovich (1821-188...
dec 22 2016 ∞
dec 22 2016 +

Prose

  • "The Birds of Prey" (a short story; 1905)[104]
  • "A Tale of a Whale" (a short story; 1905)
  • "The Man Who Was King" (a short story; 1905)[105]
  • "The Wine and the Puritans" (review, 1909)
  • "The Point of View" (1909)
  • "Gentlemen and Seamen" (1909)
  • "Egoist" (review, 1909)

Poems

  • "A Fable for Feasters" (1905)
  • "[A Lyric:]'If Time and Space as Sages say'" (1905)
  • "[At Graduation 1905]" (1905)
  • "Song:'If space and time,as sages say'" (1907)
  • "Before Morning" (1908)
feb 24 2017 ∞
aug 26 2017 +