Before Propp did for Russian folktales and Buñuel for Hollywood movies, Frenchman Georges Polti proposed a theory in 1916 that for each story or scenario there exist 36 basic dramatic situations.
Casablanca – critical edition
The experimental television lab at Georgia Tech has been working with the AFI on a digital critical edition of «Casablanca» that allows scholars to analyze each scene of the film, contrast it with alternate versions, with the original script, and with production notes.
Jim Henson
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World @ Museum of the Moving Image, in Queens, NY
Freedom on the internet
The «bad guys in Hollywood» are trying to pass a bill that is threatening the very essence of freedom and democracy on the internet.
The Lament Project
The Lament Project is a sound project proposed by Viralnet.
Complexism
A la recherche d’un humanisme transdisciplinaire ->
Illich on computers
Ivan Illich warned of a society enslaved by computers, at the Asahi Symposium Science and Man in 1982
plantes, oiseaux, reptiles, amphibiens, et orthoptères… ->
Greek words for love
Ancient Greek has 4 words for love : Agape, Eros, Philia and Storge.
2012
