Jonathan Longden

My film-philosophy, or why I write about film Film interpretation as the sandbox for the creative hermeneutic development of philosophy

My film-philosophy, or why I write about film
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Jonathan Longden (@jonathanlongden) Most critics think Ari Aster's Eddington is just a satire of the 2020 culture wars. They are missing the point entirely. It isn't a film about politics. It’s a terrifying existential horror about how...

Most critics think Ari Aster's Eddington is just a satire of the 2020 culture wars. They are missing the point entirely.

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Who is sending the tapes? You are.

How to See: Philosophy, Cinema, and the Search for Being Charting the path from Neuroscience to Heidegger, and finally, to the Cinema of Michael Haneke.

Twenty years ago, a neuroscientist told me consciousness was just chemistry. It felt like a paradox: if he was right, his explanation was just chemistry too.

I’ve returned to philosophy (and cinema) to find the answer he couldn't give me.

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