The Amazing 1970s The prolific period from the tail end of 1960s to the end of 1970s, which I will call the 1970s, is an anomaly in mainstream American cinema. Partly due to the cultural success of television, bringing realism to American living rooms, the financial success of films like Easy Rider (1969) and Arthur Penn’s […]
Author: Tony Kashani
OUR MORAL OBLIGATION TO NONHUMAN ANIMALS
There is no question that Homo sapiens is the dominant species on the planet. I argue that with this dominance comes a moral responsibility. In formulating his famous “categorical imperative,” the grandfather of modern nonconsequential duty-ethics Immanuel Kant proclaimed, “Act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, […]
THE INTERNET AS GOD
Voltair once wrote, “If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.” Deep thinking people have been asking if there are any good reasons for believing that God is an existent being and not a human invention. It is written in the Bible that God created man in his own image […]
AUDIOVISUAL AND/OR VISUAL
It is indeed correct to assume that we live in an audiovisual world. What is more, the audiovisual culture is ubiquitous. Whether it is an art piece in a modern art museum such as the white canvases or simply going to a restaurant for dinner where our culinary experience will have a piano player augmenting […]
THE PHOTOGRAPH & MORALITY
In her excellent book, On Photography, Susan Sontag has managed to give us two things to ponder; a history of photography as the closest replication of reality and a deeper examination of power of photography, which is not lost on anyone, I gather.Thinking about this, I am reminded of Richard Rorty’s assertion of the role […]