Click Here to Read: Malcolm J. Hoffs 1937 – 2016 in The Los Angeles Times on February 27, 2016.
Photography Friday: Donald Treeger
“Star Wars VII”: Nostalgia and Repetition A Long Time Ago …
by Herbert H. Stein
Let’s talk about the new Star Wars movie. After all, for a while everyone else was.
In a now mildly famous controversy, the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, told Charlie Rose “They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that. Every movie I work very hard to make them completely different, with different plan- ets, with different spaceships, make it new.” In a later TV interview on CBS, he apologized, saying, “The issue was ultimately, they looked at the stories and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans.’ People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems-it’s not about space- ships. So they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, ‘Fine … I’ll go my way and I let them go their way.’” Continue reading “Star Wars VII”: Nostalgia and Repetition A Long Time Ago …
Philosophy Thursday: David Bloor
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Click Here to Read: Science, Technology and Society VI: David Bloor and the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge by Daniel Halverson on the Partially Examined Life blog on April 8, 2015,
Click Here to Read: The Strong Programme cooled by Roninspoon (idea) by cabin fever on the Everything2 website on March 14 2002. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: David Bloor
Writer’s Wednesday: George Orwell
Click Here to Read: George Orwell on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Antisemitism in Britain by George Orwell on the George Orwell Website.
Click Here to Read: Read Aldous Huxley’s review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell bu Cyriaque Lamar on the io9 website on March 6, 2012.
Click Here to Read: “For what am I fighting?”: George Orwell on Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” Republished 1941 review shows the influence Kostler’s dystopian classic had on Orwell by George Orwell on the New Statesman website on January 23, 2013.
Click Here to Read: Hope Against Hope: Orwell’s Posthumous Novel by Morris Dickstein.
Last Day to Register Online!: Alienation in Today’s World at AAPCSW
American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work
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Alienation in Today’s World: Implications for Clinical Practice
Saturday, May 21, 2016
8:45 – 9:30 am Registration and Breakfast
9:30 – 1:30 pm Panel Presentation and Discussion
The Nightingale-Bamford School, 20 East 92 Street (bet. 5th & Madison) New York, NY
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PROGRAM
Arlene Kramer Richards
Lucille Spira
The Spiral of Loneliness and Alienation
Being lonely, people take comfort in the internet. The internet decreases face-to-face contact with others. The touch and smell of another person gets lost and that makes the person lonelier. Richards will discuss people in this Continue reading Last Day to Register Online!: Alienation in Today’s World at AAPCSW
