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(John Young) > 2. intelligence is no advantage, it's a handicap (Morlock Elloi) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:58:14 -0400 > From: John Young <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> Artists, Intellectuals, Writers, Curators, Book > Fair, Literary Festival, Symposium. > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed > > The New Yorker, August 5 & 12, 2019 Issue: > > Olga Tokarczuk?s Novels Against Nationalism > In the face of the Polish government?s rightist > dogma, the country?s pre?minent writer explores > its history of ethnic intermingling. > > Ruth Franklin, author of the Tokarcsuk profile, > seems unable to avoid diminishing individuals by > lumping them into thoughtless, demeaning categories of the vaporous market. > > "Tokarczuk is based in Wrocaw, in the southwest > of Poland. She was in Warsaw not only for the > book fair but also for a literary festival, > called Apostrof, which took place at the > Universal Theatre, a headquarters of sorts for > intellectuals and artists. This year Tokarczuk > was a guest curator, organizing a weeklong series > of symposiums featuring leading Polish writers and intellectuals." > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 17:01:51 -0700 > From: Morlock Elloi <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: <nettime> intelligence is no advantage, it's a handicap > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > As US political film is mostly dead (? by Miracle Max), what's left is > perhaps worth mentioning. > > [machine translated from > > https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Die-fabelhafte-Welt-des-Kapitalismus-4485903.html > ] > > The fabulous world of capitalism > 03rd August 2019 > R?diger Suchsland > > The latest film by Canadian Denys Arcand about the demise of the > American Empire > > Nobody can tell you how much of it is in circulation, we are talking > about billions, if not trillions "- even this dialogue sentence is a > fable, because actually one would have to speak of trillions. The > world's cash sum alone is a two-digit billiard number. In any case, the > main actor of this film is the money. There are quite a few of them, but > quite a few really have enough. > > Everything is about money > > Everything revolves around money, it is at the center of the action. The > main human protagonist is called Pierre-Paul. He is a young and highly > intelligent man, but at the same time a kind of urban neurotics alien to > life, as Woody Allen could not paint more precisely and happily. > > He works for a low-wage parcel courier in Montreal, Canada, and in his > free time reads philosophers. His girlfriend, Linda, is a bank clerk. He > gives her long lectures during a joint date in a mixture of despair and > intellectual arrogance: > > "The great writers were all stupid as straw." Dostoyevsky has shifted > his wife's furs, he was addicted to gambling, he was sure to win, he was > blind to the laws of probability, Tolstoy forbade his servants to be > vaccinated, and Louis Ferdinand Celine fled from France and got lost in > the SS - a complete idiot Hemingway saw himself as a boxer - what a > great genius! " > > Justified inquiry: "If you are so smart, why do not you run a bank or > work in the university?" > > "I am too intelligent, intelligence is no advantage" > > Pierre-Paul's answer: "I'm too intelligent, intelligence is no > advantage, it's a handicap," he says, quite without vanity, but with > very sober analytical power. After all, he has a doctorate. > Pierre-Paul's ability to grasp the depths of this world in its > complexity provides legitimate depression. > > Someday everything will change. Life breaks down with power over > Pierre-Paul's existence, so that he can no longer escape from him. Now > his theories about the stupidity of the wise will either be confirmed or > he will refute them. Because, by chance, he witnesses a bank robbery > that ends so bloody that at the end of it a handful of corpses and two > huge bags full of banknotes lie on the street. > > Before the police arrive, Pierre-Pauls stuffs the bags in his van. > > But what should he do with the money? Especially since all the gangsters > of Quebec and of course the police are behind the bags. > > The disenfranchised and insulted are finally defending themselves > > Together with the escort girl Aspasia and the clever ex-rocker Sylvain > (R?my Girard), the random millionaire forms an outsider gang of the > marginalized - driven by the Stoic Marc Aurel and his principle of Amor > fati, the love of destiny. > > With them, Pierre-Paul also gets an insight into the less visible world > of money laundering. > > It is used, for example, by politicians who transfer legal money > directly to Bermuda because they can not afford the media to jump on it. > Or from noble prostitutes. Anyone who pays them basically donates to a > charity. > > The new film by French-Canadian director Denys Arcand continues the > film's critique of the materialism of contemporary society that has > shaped Arcand's previous films: "The Fall of the American Empire" (1986) > and "The Invasion of the Barbarians" (2003). > > His new work is a comedy and a comic thriller and thus quite > old-fashioned - more than a Woody Allen movie, it's reminiscent of a > Peter Sellers comedy like "The Pinky Panter" by Blake Edwards. The > original title of the film is "The Fall of the American Empire". > > The basic idea is convincing: Arcand wants to explain the world and uses > for it a political-philosophical gangster film. Money is not a mere > fetish and an excuse to show beautiful men beautiful things, at work, > kissing, shooting and driving, so it has a deeper (social) meaning. > > The disenfranchised and insulted are finally defending themselves. Films > such as Bertold Viertel's The Adventures of a Ten-mark Certificate > (1926), Max Oph?ls' "Comedy of the Money" or Robert Bresson's "L'Argent" > ("The Money") are the inspiration for this. > > As a director, Arcand does not always have his complicated story under > control. The mood fluctuates sharply between a harsh, sometimes brutal > thriller, a bitter social drama and a light romance. The dialogues, > which initially seem a bit sluggish, but become more playful and witty > with increasing film duration. > > Arcand connects with all the deeper meaning, namely a critique of high > finance, of everyday social corruption and political conditions in the > West: "Just as pathetic are the politicians: George Bush, Nicolas > Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi - they are all losers Donald Trump!" - "63 > million Americans have chosen him." - "Of course, idiots worship idiots." > > > > ------------------------------ > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > > End of nettime-l Digest, Vol 143, Issue 1 > ***************************************** > -- Lloyd Lowe Producer/Director Sugar-free Motion Pictures m: 2133591468 w: www.sugarfreemp.com e: [email protected]
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