Jawel hoor, je kon er op wachten. Von Hagens heeft een setje lijken geleverd voor op de set van de nieuwe James Bond film, Casino Royale. Ik heb dat uit de VPRO-gids van de komende week (nr. 48), waar ze het verder ook over “ethisch gequatsch” hebben en dat de mensen in Guben, Oost-Duitsland, het…

One of the moral values of art appreciation (according to Eaton) is that it teaches us about narrative coherence, but: Is a human life coherent? When would one say of a human life that it is incoherent? In short: how exactly is artistic (narrative) coherence going to teach us a lesson about our lives? In…

In the past, I have dubbed the type of representation through modal ellipsis, that we saw in the coffee cup scene from Robert Bresson’s L’argent, ‘intimation’. The point about intimation is that it makes events intimate by representing them incompletely, i.e. not in all the sense modalities that an audience expects. There was visual representing…