Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes and Fight Club

‘Time-twisted space’: an exploration of the synaesthetic continuum through the work of Vladimir Nabokov

“…Although Nabokov did not ‘care for’ Plato, he seems to acknowledge an analogy between authorship and the Allegory of the Cave (Fraser 2012), in which the work-in-construction is present ‘in some other, now transparent, now dimming, dimension’, and the author must ‘take down as much of it as I can make out and as precisely as I am humanly able to’ (Nabokov 1973, 69). Synaesthesia is rather like the mysterious objects casting shadows on the walls of Plato's cave: despite its first-hand inaccessibility to those whose brains are not configured to experience it, it is able to be explored through the universally familiar shadows it casts on the walls of perception.…”

Ethics Crimes and Misdemeanors

“…In numerous point of view shots, for example, various prison employees are shown to attend only to very small moments of the condemned man´s execution -the strapping down of his arm or the pushing of a button -actions that together add up to the state´s talking of a human life." [2] Thus, Dead Man Walking does not only illustrate known ethical positions on the death penalty but seeks to change the terms of the debate. One of the ideas here is that the film medium -with editing, close-ups and camera angulation -is better suited to doing this than philosophical texts.…”