Attack on Titan and existentialism
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Attack on Titan and existentialism
This post contains spoilers from the finale....
Why did the sound vanish from all of my recording devices at the same moment?
I am seeking a scientific explanation behind this phenomenon which is unprecedented to me....
Depictions of and by the Other
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021): Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp....
Socially Conscious Movies
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Socially conscious films for the comrades
Parasite 기생충 (2019): Ki-taek’s family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying the expectations of all his family, Ki-woo heads...
Ancient historical fiction?
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Ancient historical fiction?
I had an interesting thought yesterday. I was pondering, what if some of the archaic literature we relied upon to document past events was actually fictional accounts intended to be read for leisure?...
A Review of Pearl S. Buck's “Peony” (1948)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1140184...
A Review of Pearl S. Buck's “Peony” (1948)
(The following review contains NO SPOILERS)...
A Critique of Steven Pinker's “The Blank Slate” (2002)
This is a book that I had put on my reading list a few years ago but couldn't tackle until last month. If I were to read it sooner, I wouldn't have known how to respond to the author's arguments with anything other than contempt and unjustified hostility....
Books written by authors from the Global South.
Hello, we’re nearing the end of the year and I’m looking for non-personal suggestions to fill my bucket list with....
What's a book that you passionately criticize but still recommend it?
For me, it’s a non-fiction by Ahmet Davutoglu (Turkey’s former PM) titled “Alternative Paradigms”. Without entering into extensive details, Davutoglu contrasts the Islamic and Western worlds from a philosophical and political aspects in assertion of the theory of the clash of civilizations in the globalization era. While...
Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it?
"Piracy" here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts....