Monthly Archives: July 2011

German Prototype, More Reflections Still

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

I began talking about Fritz Lang, made more comments on more movies, especially old German silents, added more images: Lang, Murnau … have to cite GW Pabst! I’d recently been showing classic movies to my girl friend. Now she’s in … Continue reading →

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German Prototype, More Reflections

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

Brigitte Helm, the actress who modeled the robot in Metropolis, also tried to use machinery to free the workers. This series of posts, a series so any one post wouldn’t get sunk by too many pix, skips around among subjects, … Continue reading →

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German Prototype Reflections

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

(Make sure you’ve already perused German Prototype.) I don’t doubt that murder is older than war: but I bet that mutilation and group rape are probably almost as old. Terror would go way into pre-history. But never mind that: let’s … Continue reading →

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German Prototype

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

I was first knocked out by Fritz Lang in the 1950s when his Metropolis (1927) came on the TV. It was at least 1959 or 1960 before I saw his M (1931), with Peter Lorre. And only just now am … Continue reading →

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Teachers

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

Teachers can aid learning. My own emphasis since joining Ivan Illich in deschooling has been to emphasize the possibility of auto-didacticism: learn to observe, learn to listen, learn to read, learn the library, learn your society, go! The whole culture … Continue reading →

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Duality: Binary Semantics

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

1998 10 27 Good & Evil. God & Satan. Life & Death. Flesh & Stone. Ideal & Real. Isn’t every culture filled with dualities? One, two, three … Every human culture can count to three. Ancient Chinese artists knew that … Continue reading →

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Decimal Fractions

Posted on 2011/07/29 by pk

/ Knatz.com / Teaching / Thinking Tools / @ K. 2003 11 22 Absolute versus Gradual Mission: to highlight differences between absolute and gradient distinctions I blurt and rant in my Society section. Even my FLEX (deschooling) section has untamed … Continue reading →

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Consciousness

Posted on 2011/07/28 by pk

Mission: to clarify, debunk, and question the concept of consciousness”/> @ K. 2000 09 23 A big subject. Consciousness is another thing we’re so proud of without having a clear idea of what it is. Neither do we have a … Continue reading →

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Communication Scrapbook

Posted on 2011/07/28 by pk

WARNING: Post-Larval Must Be Very Cautious in Communicating with Larval humans. deoxy.org 1999 09 09 Several places here now have already introduced some basic points about communication. Namely, it is not single-purposed, but is minimally dual- purposed: and thus ambiguous. … Continue reading →

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Communication

Posted on 2011/07/28 by pk

Mission: to explore levels & problems in communication @ K. 1998 07 18 For starters, I repeat my 1963 statement on the subject. I feel — both instinctively and rationally — that communication has been and will be the triumph … Continue reading →

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