Cypher (2002)

My rating: ***** Spoiler alert imdb link This wonderful and underrated science fiction film was directed by Vincenzo Natali who directed the earlier better known Cube. The original title for the film was Company Man but was renamed Cypher when the film-makers found there was another film of the same name. Cypher means a person [...]

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Foucault, identity and writing

Posted on my site michel-foucault.com If identity becomes the problem of sexual existence, and if people think they have to ‘uncover’ their ‘own identity’ and that their own identity has to become the law, the principle, the code of their existence; if the perennial question they ask is ‘Does this thing conform to my identity?’ [...]

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The Amber Spyglass

My rating: * Spoiler Alert The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman My review This book is well written and the story really hooks you in, but I really disliked the philosophy Pullman is pushing. This philosophy seems to be a kind of Nietzschean materialist version of gnosticism (phew!). His is a universe which allows only [...]

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