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    • Examined Life

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      In this extraordinary documentary Astra Taylor, talented filmmaker does the unthinkable. She manages take philosophy out of the academic books and classrooms and places it back on the street in this exciting film. Examined Life, released in 2008 showcases eight inspiring modern philosophers as they venture around New York and other metropolises. They examine the practical application of their theories in our contemporary culture.

      Some of the following philosophers are covered in Examined Life during its 88 minutes. Slavoj Zizek sifting through a garbage dump while questioning current beliefs surrounding the environment. Judith Butler and a friend question our culture’s fixation on individualism as they walk through San Francisco’s Mission District. Cornel West drives through Manhattan comparing the philosophy to blues and jazz. Michael Hardt considers the nature of revolution while surrounding himself with symbols of wealth and leisure. Peter Singer reveals his thoughts on ethics of consumption while using Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques for a backdrop.

      Examined Life originally debuted in 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival. It then appeared in 2009 at the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival. In association with the Ontario Media Development Corporation, Knowledge Network and TVOntario, the film was co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Sphinx Productions.

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      Published on February 21, 2010 · Filed under: Psychology

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    • AKing

      Fantastic assembly of minds. This is absolutely splendid

    • shaun

      good idea for a movie, and there are some very inciteful scenes. but over-all i think there was a lack of content.

    • mike

      i enjoyed it even though a lot of the time i was clueless

    • Jason

      Interesting. I quite enjoyed listening to Peter Singer and Kwame Anthony Appiah. I almost didn't make it that far into the movie however due to the verbosity and pretentiousness of Cornel West and Avital Ronell. I think one of the primary objectives of philosophy is to be as clear and understandable as possible, and I think Cornel and Avital are both guilty of trying to make their ideas (and/or themselves) sound impressive.

      In Documentary Log's description of this doc Cornel is described as a public intellectual, which is what I think Cornel is trying to achieve, but I'm starting to believe that attempting such is folly. I think that vanity is his main motivator (the guy played as an elder councilman of Zion in the Matrix for crying out loud) and I think that all the attention makes it harder for one to change their public opinion if they realize that they were wrong. It also requires a certain level of pandering to the public which often doesn't lead to the most objective ideas/statements/books.

      As for Avital, she has a degree in comparative literature, and then studied under Jacques Derrida (who has been criticized by other philosophers for pretentious writing and purposeful lack of clarity). I know this is an ad hominem argument, but I she just doesn't seem to present any original ideas. She simply isn't a philosopher in the modern sense of the word.

      That being said, I don't know too much about either Cornel or Avital, and I could be wrong about them.

    • AKing

      I understand what you're saying. While I can't speak for Avital (I don't know much about her, probably because I'm not much a fan of Derrida), West's body of work is impressive despite his seeming self-indulgence. I say this only because I'm familiar with his early writings, and it's clear that (at least at that point) he was a man driven by a need to share powerful and insightful ideas. Nonetheless, he has created a particular public persona that can be off-putting.

    • PC Lover

      Excellent video. Slavoj Zizek was amazing.
      @Jason don't knock Mr. West. His ideas and observations are solid to me.
      @Documentary-Log these MegaVideo uploads suck man. Do you know where this video can be purchased.

    • WoW

      Postmodernist/poststructuralists can't seem to root their rhetoric in reality. Their propositions rely on the self reaching the state of "enlightenment", presumably voluntarily, in order to reach the extent of civility. How can these philosophers assume that if someone adopts their ideology, she/he will necessarily reach the same conclusions as is suggested, and perform reality in some predictable manner?

      I would love for the masses to be able to deconstruct categories and institutional boundaries, to recognize the fluidity and arbitrariness of society, but how do these theories help the raped women, starving children, sweat shop workers etc.? When will philosophy have the effect of benefiting the vulnerable or holding accountable the centralized powers?

    • Skors

      @ PC Lover you can download the video… plz google for solutions… however you need to download flash player in order to watch the video

    • jack

      i had never heard of cornel before this, after his first fews sentences it became clear he was intelligent, erudite and above all obsessed with sounding clever..(ironically i tried to find a single word that means the same thing with an online thesauras)…. avital took the cake for me, she has an amazing ability to say so much without saying anything at all

    • jack

      avital… oh dear, rips off and misinterprets heidegger and talks nonsense in between. hardly her fault because her ‘phenomenological’ predecessors often did the same thing….

    • gottspieler

      pseudo-intellects bore and annoy me…philosophy is dead..it died with the coming of the scientific revolution..sure, many philosophers and theologians got the ball rolling for the revolution but now the outdated ideas of Hegel, Hume, Hobbes, Descartes, Heidegger, Russell, etc are laughable…Sartre has some merit but his assumption of free will is disturbing in modern times…

    • Sunny

      “The unexamined life is not worth living”-Socrates not Plato

     
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