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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Eight

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7

At first, we hear the sound of birds singing. The sound is pretty and harmless. Is it the lovebirds in the kitchen? Then we hear fluttering and flapping. This grows louder and louder and the pretty singing of a moment before is replaced by angry cawing and screeching. It is one of the most interesting scenes in the entire film. Read more …

Published: July 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, being, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, feminism, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Birds, the uncanny | 2 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Seven

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

With the gulls now retreating, Mitch and Melanie leave the Tides restaurant and make their way up the hill to Annie’s house to retrieve Cathy. All is deathly quiet. As they approach the schoolhouse, they see that the crows are back and perched all over. “Look, the crows again!” Melanie says breathlessly. Read more …

Published: July 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, articles, class conflict, complacency, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernity, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, spirituality, The Birds, the bourgeoisie, the uncanny, tribalism, women | 4 Responses

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The Birds
Or: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Coronavirus (But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock & Heidegger), Part Five

Derek Hawthorne

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

In the last installment, I began to explore the possibility that The Birds can be understood as an “existentialist” parable. I argued that the film depicts what Heidegger calls das Ereignis (the event): a sudden and fundamental transformation of the meaning of everything. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred Hitchcock, apocalypse, articles, being, complacency, das Ereignis, Derek Hawthorne, die Lichtung, environmentalism, hubris, knowledge, Martin Heidegger, modernism, mortality, nature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, scientism, The Birds, the uncanny | 8 Responses

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The European Soul in the Age of Tumult

Veiko Hessler

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Dream of Ossian, 1813.

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The first rocket in over a decade has blasted off from US soil, bound for stars, aiming to dock with the International Space Station. Yet the country it leaves behind is set aflame, riven by racial strife in some of the most widespread unrest in recent memory. The world emerges from months of stasis and pseudo-imprisonment, facing an uncertain political and economic future in the wake of the coronavirus. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama predicted the end of history Read more …