30/07/2011

15/05/2011

"Yet he who traverses and is able to stand in the middle, at the almost utopian yet infinitely near point from which the living source addresses him as a simultaneous manifestation, is redeemed and is himself a redeemer. For here, the situation is simple: it is simply a question of going through the plane, nothing is needed but a virtual displacement and transformation into substantiality, the border of which was the very symbol which always belongs to its object."


Scholem, Tagebücher, 2:685. On this text and its variants, see Peter Schäfer, ‘‘Die Philologie der Kabbala ist nur eine Projektion auf eine Fläche: Gershom Scholem über die wahren Absichten seines Kabbalastudiums,’’ Jewish Studies Quarterly 5 (1999): 1–25. Sourced from http://jqr.pennpress.org/PennPress/journals/jqr/JQR200602003.pdf

09/05/2011

“A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo, to create ex nihilo. In order to make room for one’s own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we could not mentally remove ourselves from where we physically are located and imagine that things might as well be different from what they actually are. In other words, the deliberate denial of factual truth – the ability to lie – and the capacity to change facts – the ability to act – are interconnected; they owe their existence to the same source: imagination.” (Arendt, 1969: 5)

"He (the Liar) is an actor by nature; he says what is not so because he wants things to be different from what they are – that is, he wants to change the world.” (Arendt, 1968: 246)


Arendt, Hannah. Truth in Politics, in: Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (Penguin Books, New York, 1968 ), 223-59. Arendt, Hannah. Lying in Politics, in: Crises of the Republic (Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1969), 1-48. Sourced from Eenkhoorn, P. Lying in Business, 2010, arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=106758

06/05/2011




Hopper, Dennis. Interview with John A. Gallagher, 1983. Sourced from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VnjKesTsg&feature=related

05/05/2011




Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares, 1936. Sourced from http://www.scribd.com/doc/24313727/Stanislavski-1936-An-Actor-Prepares

04/05/2011





Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich. 'Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity', Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays, University of Texas Press, 1990. Sourced from http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pa5r9U6vqcYC&dq=other+hero+inauthor:bakhtin&source=gbs_navlinks_s

03/05/2011



Fry, Paul. Introduction to Literary Theory, 2009. Sourced from http://academicearth.org/lectures/intro-literary-theory-1