An attempt to understand certain contradictions within Brecht's essay "Alienation in Chinese Acting." The main contradiction is between a statement that "the artist's object is to appear strange" a...
A discussion of the use of Alienation and Empathy in Brecht's play Galileo Galilei, attempting to use Galileo to provide a glimpse into the Dialectical Theater of Brecht's later years.
I wrote a sentence about my dissatisfaction with waiting for a response to my E-mails, Test Messages and the like. These modern forms of miscommunication tend to alienate us, while offering a convi...
This essay delves into Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, analyzing the band's history and development leading up to DSOTM. Then, the band's uncharacteristically efficient use of the studio is exa...
This is an annotated track listing with points of interest for every song on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It is meant to accompany my Dark Side of the Moon essay (it clarifies my argument, a...
When Square Sally moves in to Circletown she feels different. She learns the value of being proud of who she is and makes friends. It's a modern parable about the value of diversity.
What is a meme, how do we observe one and how do we replicate them? Properly conceived, a science of memetic selection can explain otherwise mystifying social and cultural phenomena.
Richard Schmitt - Introduction to Marx and Engels: A Critical Reconstruction - Marx, Engels, Alienation, Hegel, Dialectic, Marxian Dialectic, Class Struggle, Utopian Socialism, Scientific Socialism...
Alienation brings all kinds of suffering and sorrow, hurt and pain. The sad part is that it all can be so easily ended if only we are willing to be reconciled and yet we too often refuse.
Man, reduced to a commodity, alienated from himself, asked to submit to ever hierarchical authorities and at the same time believing himself to be master of himself.
V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas chronologically depicts the life of the East Indian community in Trinidad, and simultaneously narrates the story of a man in search of an identity. From t...
One day, while browsing the internet, Danni came across a website that claimed to find addresses and phone numbers simply by entering a name. Danni began to wonder if this site could help her find ...