How to understand the nature of artistic creation when the author does not belong to the human experience, but rather… Read more Mindful Machines
Author: Alex Garcia Topete
Writer. Filmmaker. Feminist. Environmentalist. Entrepreneur. Innovator. Strategist. Humanist.
The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’
How to understand the ethical value of a documentary such as Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012), which focuses more… Read more The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’
Sex: The Addiction That Can’t Save the Stars
On November 27 of 2009, golf legend Tiger Woods totaled his SUV after smashing it against a tree outside his… Read more Sex: The Addiction That Can’t Save the Stars
Payback vs. Payback: Fim Noir & Noir Films
Is “film noir” just a style, or is it a genre of its own? This is the question that most… Read more Payback vs. Payback: Fim Noir & Noir Films
De Filosofía y “El Extranjero”
“El Extranjero” del francés Albert Camus es una obra contundente y sumamente profunda gracias a su simplicidad. La obra narra… Read more De Filosofía y “El Extranjero”
“From high Aether down to the low Abyss”
How to begin to understand humanity’s relation to physis, one that has no beginning and no end because humanity belongs… Read more “From high Aether down to the low Abyss”
Transdisciplinary Intelligence
‘Academic’ English
The empire of English is crumbling–the language that brought the whole world together under the British Empire, and then even… Read more ‘Academic’ English
Daisy Miller: A Study of American Realism
At first reading, Henry James’s Daisy Miller: A Study seems to be just another romance—a story about lovers and wooing… Read more Daisy Miller: A Study of American Realism
