Deleuze makes a nice distinction between stupidity and idiocy. Stupidity is not thinking. It is the enemy of philosophy; or philosophy its, since philosophy's task is to combat stupidity. Stupidity is not thinking in so far as stupidity doesn't think for itself, so it can appear

Simon Bennett, director, writes in his valedictory for Tom Stoppard, recently deceased, He gave us some good shit to sink our teeth into. –⁠Facebook post, 30.11.2025 The New York Times obituary is equally a travesty: A voracious reader but otherwise remarkably undereducated ... He didn't go to

The concept for this visionary architectural project is laid out below. Please respond with expressions of interest by email here. Integrated Architectural Concept for the Minus Theatre (Riyadh) Based on Ando’s Minamidera → Lalibela’s St. George → Yazd Wind-Catchers (with the Minus Theatre philosophical requirements fully preserved)* 1. Conceptual Core:

The following article is prompted by Auckland Theatre Company's puff line for its 2026 season of Cabaret: One of the most iconic musicals of all time, Cabaret is bringing its divinely decadent and chillingly relevant dazzling production to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2026. 🎶! Chillingly relevant?! I asked, commenting on

The last lecture raises two questions. One of them I hope to have made at least a partial answer to by the end of this lecture. One of them will be left more or less open.  The question of the assassination by visual effects, CGI, of film: sounds criminal. But

VFX is the art of contingency. We have been considering the time of contingency.  For the mise-en-scѐne time is the condition of a character’s embeddedness in a time of contingency, where anything can happen, which, for us the viewer, is the time of historicity. Our first concept.  We look