University

My first essay for REL22: Buddhist Meditation Traditions is now available in the Uni Papers section of this site.  You can follow this link to view the paper.

Usually on a Wednesday I'd be down in Brisbane attending my Lecture and Tutorial for PHIL2400: Ethics and the Passions, but not today.  Today I have off as this week is the Easter Holidays/Mid Term Break.  However, far from having a relaxing day to myself I'm head high in assessment!

This week was of PHI350 was much more interesting and engaging than the other weeks so far.  The title for the week was 'The Question of Realism', looking for an answer via the writings of Andrè Bazin and Rudolf Arnheim.  Two films were prescribed for the week, The Spy by Lang, and Bicycle Thieves by De Sica.  Unfortunately I couldn't source either of these films in full so had to settle on excerpts.

In a previous post I wondered who was viewing my University Papers and for what purposes.  Well I can't answer that but with a little bit a web analytics digging I've got the following results.

Users from the following Universities (using their servers) have accessed my University Papers over the past month (since I've upgraded my site)

This week's material was actually quite wide ranging.  We had readings by Rancière on Artistic Regimes and the Shortcomings of the Notion of Modernity, Jarvie, more broadly, on the Philosophy of film, Aristotle on what makes a good plot, and, of course, Plato's cave and a little on art theory (such as his simile of the chair).  The film for this week was either Buster Keaton's 'Our Hospitality' or 'The General', I chose 'The General' as I own a copy.  And, as usual, my tutorial question responses follow at the end.

As part of my assessment for PHI350: Philosophy and Cinema I have to keep a journal which can be presented in whatever creative fashion one desires (although a basic text only, handwritten journal is fine too).  What I've proposed is that I keep my journal online, as an aspect of this website, part of my blog, as there are numerous benefits to doing so.  My T.A.