tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3901886714253391706..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: The future has already happened. It just hasn't happened yet.Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-5044933076278675122007-04-26T00:43:00.000-04:002007-04-26T00:43:00.000-04:00Dare I mention Derrida's Memoirs of The Blind whic...Dare I mention Derrida's Memoirs of The Blind which has seeing, holding, touching, the event, Milton, and Samson, but sadly not Nicholas Cage. One more exception would have to be Wild at Heart.Michael O'Rourkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03110210128389911666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-73007696509564825932007-04-25T13:09:00.000-04:002007-04-25T13:09:00.000-04:00hd: you make me wonder, did Nicholas Cage's thespi...hd: you make me wonder, did Nicholas Cage's thespian talent dwindle with the receding of his locks? Could he be the Actors Guild version of Samson?Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-31493977432789376322007-04-25T13:08:00.000-04:002007-04-25T13:08:00.000-04:00Karl: you can also add Raising Arizona to this sho...Karl: you can also add <EM>Raising Arizona</EM> to this short list of films immune to the dumbifying presence of Nicholas Cage -- there, dare I say it, he is brilliant.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-22583775026142261902007-04-25T12:08:00.000-04:002007-04-25T12:08:00.000-04:00It's funny how Nicholas Cage can bring a movie's t...<I>It's funny how Nicholas Cage can bring a movie's total IQ down so quickly.</I><BR/><BR/>What? <I>Moonstruck</I>? <I>Adaptation</I>? The trailer for Werewolf Women of the SS in <I>Grindhouse</I>? <I><B>Valley Girl</B></I>?<BR/><BR/>Exceptions, I know.Karl Steelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03353370018006849747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-17311239763692734612007-04-25T11:29:00.000-04:002007-04-25T11:29:00.000-04:00jjc, i forgot that dinshaw employs touch... seems ...jjc, i forgot that dinshaw employs touch... seems like it might be worthwhile to scan through that text again. thanks.<BR/><BR/>p.s. poor nicholas cage and his unfortunate career and hair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-57027148643398671012007-04-25T08:36:00.000-04:002007-04-25T08:36:00.000-04:00mattgabe: good thought and thanks for the bibliogr...mattgabe: good thought and thanks for the bibliography -- will check it out. <BR/><BR/>hd: great mapping of the clip. I like very much how you emplace the shift in sense metaphors within a shift in kinds of futurity; it makes good sense to me, and will probably stand as the most complex thing ever written about the film. It's funny how Nicholas Cage can bring a movie's total IQ down so quickly.<BR/><BR/>As to touching the future ... as you know, I've just been re-reading Dinshaw's Getting Medieval, which uses a tactile bridge to the past to envision a more capacious (short-horizon, liberally inclusive) future.<BR/><BR/>cr: thank YOU for the post.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-80174381782943875642007-04-25T00:34:00.000-04:002007-04-25T00:34:00.000-04:00Hey! Thanks for the post!Hey! Thanks for the post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-2151747047443007632007-04-24T13:07:00.000-04:002007-04-24T13:07:00.000-04:00As i watched the preview for "Next," I was struck ...As i watched the preview for "Next," I was struck by the sensory metaphors used to describe the epistemology of the future. Nicholas Cage's character can "see" the future, but the future "holds" unexpected events for him. I wonder if it's worth thinking about the agency of these phrases: seeing seems somewhat impotent, at least in this preview (he can see it but he can't quite change it...). Holding, however, seems more powerful: death is always imminent. What to make of these metaphors? For some reason, Milton's PL jumps to mind. If I recall my Milton, Michael shows Adam the future, of the Old Testement, through visions. However, he tells Adam the future of the New Testement, since adam's eyes are "weary" from the sights. The sensory shift marks a change in futurity; in PL it emphasizes typology. Given Next's main conflict, i.e. dude versus the future, does the choral music work to aurally underscore the crisis between seeing and touching the future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-70017286222245406772007-04-24T11:02:00.000-04:002007-04-24T11:02:00.000-04:00It's symptomatic of apocalyptic time. "Imminent" a...It's symptomatic of apocalyptic time. "Imminent" apocalypticism, in this case perhaps (but just perhaps) secular, is the nearness of the future. From "God is coming" to "God is ALMOST here." <BR/><BR/>Richard Landes' work on western chronography in the early Middle Ages talks about this a lot (although his earlier stuff is better than the more recent).Matthew Gabrielehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11971159578332078338noreply@blogger.com