Comments for cutting on the action http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com facts, ideas, values Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:46:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on FILM Satantango (Sátántangó) by Béla Tarr {2} by djardine2520 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/film-satantango-satantango-by-bela-tarr-2/#comment-76 djardine2520 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:46:09 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=1847#comment-76 Hey, thanks for linking to our review/conversation. Ben and I appreciate the tip o' the hat. And I dig your title for our chat. Barmy indeed. Hey, thanks for linking to our review/conversation. Ben and I appreciate the tip o’ the hat.

And I dig your title for our chat. Barmy indeed.

]]> Comment on FACTS, IDEAS AND VALUES : The Ecology of thought and action by Anatole Pierre Fuksas http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/the-ecology-of-thought-and-action/#comment-74 Anatole Pierre Fuksas Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:06:36 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=504#comment-74 Hi! Thank you very much for mentioning my work. I really hope that it's going to sell on the title alone even tho I am not so sure since scientific approaches to literature are lately very adversed by current culturalist blah blah blah about neocolonialism based on the very very very pathetic deconstructionist blah blah blah which you admirably criticize in your post. And I absolutely agree about the fact that metaphoric use of scientific concepts into humanities is as depressive as it can be. That's why I feel the urge to point out that my ecological account of the novel isn't metaphoric at all. Indeed, I maintain that, according with Gibson’s Theory of Affordances and recent findings in the field of neuroscience, namely mirror neurons, stories are understood on the basis of individual action-related knowledge. That's why novels do textually encode actions and how narrative events just referring to sensory experiences and interoceptive responses as emotions, feelings, thoughts, deductions or decisions are tightly connected, and to some extent dependent on action-related ones. In such very tight terms, basically just referring to Gibson's ecological theory of visual perception, I address novels as descriptions of ecological niches, in respect to human senses and action planning. Moreover, since I found your discussion of the various metaphorical approaches to ecology very insightful and useful, I added your weblog to my blogroll and I look forward to read the other entries asap! TYVM read you soon APF Hi! Thank you very much for mentioning my work. I really hope that it’s going to sell on the title alone even tho I am not so sure since scientific approaches to literature are lately very adversed by current culturalist blah blah blah about neocolonialism based on the very very very pathetic deconstructionist blah blah blah which you admirably criticize in your post. And I absolutely agree about the fact that metaphoric use of scientific concepts into humanities is as depressive as it can be. That’s why I feel the urge to point out that my ecological account of the novel isn’t metaphoric at all. Indeed, I maintain that, according with Gibson’s Theory of Affordances and recent findings in the field of neuroscience, namely mirror neurons, stories are understood on the basis of individual action-related knowledge. That’s why novels do textually encode actions and how narrative events just referring to sensory experiences and interoceptive responses as emotions, feelings, thoughts, deductions or decisions are tightly connected, and to some extent dependent on action-related ones.
In such very tight terms, basically just referring to Gibson’s ecological theory of visual perception, I address novels as descriptions of ecological niches, in respect to human senses and action planning.

Moreover, since I found your discussion of the various metaphorical approaches to ecology very insightful and useful, I added your weblog to my blogroll and I look forward to read the other entries asap!

TYVM

read you soon

APF

]]> Comment on FILM Satantango (Sátántangó) by Béla Tarr {2} by Little patch of yellow wall or a single asparagus? : Harold Pinter’s The Proust Screenplay « fear of death is intransitive http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/film-satantango-satantango-by-bela-tarr-2/#comment-64 Little patch of yellow wall or a single asparagus? : Harold Pinter’s The Proust Screenplay « fear of death is intransitive Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:09:58 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=1847#comment-64 [...] that Pinter’s Proust was written filmically, unless a film is the length of Bela Tarr’s Satantango, it won’t truly reflect the book. The BBC radio adaptation is roughly 6 hours long and in [...] [...] that Pinter’s Proust was written filmically, unless a film is the length of Bela Tarr’s Satantango, it won’t truly reflect the book. The BBC radio adaptation is roughly 6 hours long and in [...]

]]> Comment on Béla Tarr’s Long Takes (an education in film) by How to Watch Werckmeister Harmonies « Spectacular Attractions http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/bela-tarrs-long-takes-an-education-in-film/#comment-51 How to Watch Werckmeister Harmonies « Spectacular Attractions Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:43:42 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=294#comment-51 [...] Good account of one blogger’s introduction to Bela Tarr at Fear of Death is Intransitive. [...] [...] Good account of one blogger’s introduction to Bela Tarr at Fear of Death is Intransitive. [...]

]]> Comment on More Naipaul: the art and the Life by adferoafferro http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/more-naipaul-the-art-and-the-life/#comment-41 adferoafferro Sun, 25 May 2008 10:46:54 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-41 I've be looking at Augustus John, today, for some reason and he fits the artist-as-bastard category quite nicely, thank you. His art was great, his portraiture (with the John Berger -- now available on YouTube, folks --) magnificent. In the end, good art stands for itself over and above its creator; it usually out lasts the memory of the creator's misdemeanors. A metaphor is greater than the sum of its parts (more a product, in the arithmetical sense) and so is great art. The greater the art, the more it can be seen as transcending the originator. I’ve be looking at Augustus John, today, for some reason and he fits the artist-as-bastard category quite nicely, thank you. His art was great, his portraiture (with the John Berger — now available on YouTube, folks –) magnificent.

In the end, good art stands for itself over and above its creator; it usually out lasts the memory of the creator’s misdemeanors.

A metaphor is greater than the sum of its parts (more a product, in the arithmetical sense) and so is great art. The greater the art, the more it can be seen as transcending the originator.

]]> Comment on More Naipaul: the art and the Life by weddel http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/more-naipaul-the-art-and-the-life/#comment-40 weddel Sun, 25 May 2008 10:09:18 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-40 Talking of character assassination, Simone de Beauvoir literally killed off a real life rival in a novel. (Jean-Luc Moreau, "le goût d'une vie"). You raise a lot of questions - should we take the nobel back off him, is it possible to be a sociable, empathetic human being and a great artist at the same time, or doesn't the commitment required to produce art preclude the possibility of "fitting in"... are we all jekyll and hyde even if we don't produce art... I would say some kind of reconciliation with the inner monster (through psychoanalysis, for example) is necessary if the human race is to be won. Talking of character assassination, Simone de Beauvoir literally killed off a real life rival in a novel. (Jean-Luc Moreau, “le goût d’une vie”).
You raise a lot of questions – should we take the nobel back off him, is it possible to be a sociable, empathetic human being and a great artist at the same time, or doesn’t the commitment required to produce art preclude the possibility of “fitting in”… are we all jekyll and hyde even if we don’t produce art…
I would say some kind of reconciliation with the inner monster (through psychoanalysis, for example) is necessary if the human race is to be won.

]]> Comment on Nearly finished? {2} Timothy Hallinan’s writer’s resources by damyantig http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/have-you-finished-2-timothy-hallinans-writers-resources/#comment-27 damyantig Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:13:01 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-27 Thanks for the reply,I meant my reply on an ironic note as well! And now I know you commented on my blogspot blog:). Was wondering what I was missing! Thanks for the reply,I meant my reply on an ironic note as well!

And now I know you commented on my blogspot blog:). Was wondering what I was missing!

]]> Comment on Nearly finished? {2} Timothy Hallinan’s writer’s resources by adferoafferro http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/have-you-finished-2-timothy-hallinans-writers-resources/#comment-26 adferoafferro Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:48:33 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-26 Hi Damyanti, Just my English joke. Was tickled by the idea of someone using up the last 7 mins. to start a new novel. The likelihood of someone immediately starting a new novel having just almost died completing one, seems highly unlikely. Opening the cooking sherry much more likely. It makes you want to check that quote out doesn't it? I think I might try ogle in Google myself(always a good displacement activity if you are desperate not to start that story you felt you had in you on waking bright and breezy.) I'm into ironic effects: you know the old thing, "Don't think of Pink Elephants." Reading these helpful tips for budding writers makes me think along those lines. Checked your sites: maybe ironic effect might be an idea for a short story. {There is a link which you can find to one or other of the Wegner ironic effects papers in my category list. Might help...) A recent programme on TV progamme showed how if someone was asked to memorise a shopping list then go into the shop to buy the items, if they were told, "Remember, please don't buy eggs or milk", the score for correct items bought went right down compared with no reminder control. All you need is a situation involving this kind of thing.....there was a standard weekly skit on a comedy show in the UK where woman asks husband to buy a few specific items, but each week he comes back with none of them, but a set of others to which he gives long-winded explanations about why he thought it such a good idea buying them (Two for one, "I thought a box of candles would come in handy",etc. There I've almost written the story for you! :) Cheers! Hi Damyanti,

Just my English joke. Was tickled by the idea of someone using up the last 7 mins. to start a new novel. The likelihood of someone immediately starting a new novel having just almost died completing one, seems highly unlikely. Opening the cooking sherry much more likely. It makes you want to check that quote out doesn’t it? I think I might try ogle in Google myself(always a good displacement activity if you are desperate not to start that story you felt you had in you on waking bright and breezy.)

I’m into ironic effects: you know the old thing, “Don’t think of Pink Elephants.” Reading these helpful tips for budding writers makes me think along those lines.

Checked your sites: maybe ironic effect might be an idea for a short story. {There is a link which you can find to one or other of the Wegner ironic effects papers in my category list. Might help…)

A recent programme on TV progamme showed how if someone was asked to memorise a shopping list then go into the shop to buy the items, if they were told, “Remember, please don’t buy eggs or milk”, the score for correct items bought went right down compared with no reminder control.

All you need is a situation involving this kind of thing…..there was a standard weekly skit on a comedy show in the UK where woman asks husband to buy a few specific items, but each week he comes back with none of them, but a set of others to which he gives long-winded explanations about why he thought it such a good idea buying them (Two for one, “I thought a box of candles would come in handy”,etc.

There I’ve almost written the story for you! :)

Cheers!

]]> Comment on Nearly finished? {2} Timothy Hallinan’s writer’s resources by damyantig http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/have-you-finished-2-timothy-hallinans-writers-resources/#comment-25 damyantig Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:22:43 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-25 Um, I'm not sure I like Trollope. And mostly, I am not sure what worked for Trollope would work for the rest of us. http://amloki.blogspot.com http://damyantiwrites.wordpress.com Um, I’m not sure I like Trollope. And mostly, I am not sure what worked for Trollope would work for the rest of us.

http://amloki.blogspot.com
http://damyantiwrites.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Underneath the Bunker by weddel http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/underneath-the-bunker/#comment-20 weddel Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:52:38 +0000 http://adferoafferro.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/underneath-the-bunker/#comment-20 Thanks, it's great! Thanks, it’s great!

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