Posts tagged Fight Club

This isn’t innovative. What might be somewhat new is that, at least to me, it seems that for a work of art to be “successful” it is far more important to use the chosen symbolic language effectively than to say anything terribly innovative. A novel message presented without artifice would not be as effective as a trite message presented skillfully.

Analysis, Literary Theory, Philosophy, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJune 8, 2022aesthetics, Process aesthetics, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Night in the Woods, Disco Elysium, Cursive, The Ugly Organ, Fight Club, Jacques Lacan, Symbolic Language Comments

The Gap Between Memory and Identity: Scattered Notes

So let’s shake the metaphorical etch-a-sketch and look at one of the central questions of Blade Runner that the “is Deckard a Replicant?” issue really serves as a stalking horse for: What is the relationship between memory and identity?