2006 commonplace book

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1. december 2006

   • Paul Ekman and six basic emotions

2. november 2006

   • Lucas Moodysson on his film ‘Container’
   • Angus Trimble on the plague

3. october 2006

   • Michael Haneke on avoiding ‘violating closeness’ in film
   • Mattias Frey on the anti-psychological films of Michael Haneke
   • John Robinson on engaging with biblical language

4. september 2006

   • Sunday Times editorial on freedom of speech
   • Roger Scruton on liberalism & immigrants
   • Michael Beiner on Michael Sandel's criticisms of liberalism

5. august 2006

   • John Ames in Gilead on his old body
   • John Ames in Gilead: "In eternity this world will be Troy"
   • John Ames in Gilead on the twinkling of an eye
   • Robin Holloway on dissonance in Strauss's ‘Four Last Songs’
   • John Ames in Gilead on the experience of blessing
   • Theresa of Avila on the soul entering into itself
   • Cabaret Voltaire and the origins of Dada
   • Fredric Jameson on ‘the production of postmodern people’
   • Fredric Jameson on culture cleaving close to the skin of the economic
   • Matisse on Manet and Renoir vs. those who imitated Raphael and Titian
   • Bruno Haas on time as a compositional element for Kandinsky
   • les mirages de l'oreille
   • the discovery of irregular moons
   • Theresa of Avila on one motive for writing ‘The Interior Castle’
   • Theresa of Avila on the soul resembling a castle
   • John Betjeman's hatred of Nikolaus Pevsner's work
   • Simon Bolívar's lover, Manuela Saenz, on the English
   • Kandinsky's life: a summary

6. july 2006

   • Fredric Jameson on what is new in modernism vs the change itself in postmodernism
   • William Empson on symbolist poetry
   • Robert H. Gundry on the alleged parallel between Herodias and Jezebel
   • do you recognise this man? (Kensington Parish Magazine's profile of me)
   • double-mindedness in nineteenth-century literature
   • Herod in Oscar Wilde's ‘Salomé’ on the dangers of too many symbols
   • Arthur Danto on the philosophical implications of Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes
   • Thomas Merton on keeping a journal
   • Arthur C. Danto on the title of his book The Transfiguration of the Commonplace

7. june 2006

   • Sarah Lenton on Bernini's St Theresa in Ecstacy and Ignatius
   • The dialogue between Jürgen Habermas and Pope Benedict
   • Paul de Grauwe on competition and economic growth
   • Roger Scruton on de Gaulle
   • Paula Nuttall on the Italian concept of disegno and Italian artistic chauvinism
   • Adobe's Bruce Chizen on the drive for standards slowing down innovation
   • C. K. Barrett on John 1.21: ‘Are you Elijah?’ ... ‘I am not’.
   • J. B. Priestley on clock time and inner time
   • Terry Eagleton on the fog in Bleak House
   • Hugh Rayment-Pickard on Derrida and supplementarity
   • Michael Oakeshott's definition of conservatism
   • Chinese gaming enthusiasts mining gold
   • Max Morden in John Banville's The Sea on his expectations of adulthood
   • John Banville on memories of the dead
   • John Banville on what it is like to forget Thomas Nagel's name
   • John Banville on an egg being an end before it is a beginning
   • Max Morden in The Sea on the dilettante's offspring
   • John Banville on living life as a rehearsal

8. may 2006

   • John Banville on how ‘the great ones’ never finish a work
   • John Banville on uninvited memories
   • John Banville on the past as a refuge
   • Dostoevsky on Anglicanism
   • Slavoj Žižek on virtual reality and Freud
   • Bernard Williams on slavery and economic justice
   • C. J. Clegg of The West Wing on her obituary
   • John Banville on the uncanny in childhood
   • Thomas Nagel on Bernard Williams and reflective distance
   • allegations about Opus Dei in The Da Vinci Code
   • The Da Vinci Code on paganism
   • Dan Brown on The Priory of Sion
   • the 500th title in the Sources chrétiennes collection
   • text processing languages in web documents
   • use of lang and xml:lang attributes in web documents
   • primary language metadata in web documents
   • the reinvention of concrete

9. april 2006

   • Angus Maddison on comparing standards of living through history
   • C. K. Barrett on sacraments and sacramentality in John's Gospel
   • Charles Dickens on empty rooms
   • Rowan Williams on the prose of Thomas Cranmer
   • David Thomson on the difference between the novel and film in their treatment of love
   • Diana McVeigh on Gerald Finzi's anthem Lo, the full, final sacrifice
   • Dickens's Krook on why his shop is called Chancery
   • Dickens' Lord Boodle on his fellow politicians
   • Dickens's Esther Summerson on Richard learning Latin verses rather than about himself
   • Dickens's Mr Skimpole on how Mr Gridley and the Court of Chancery were made for each other
   • Dickens's Jo and "the other lower animals"
   • Dickens's Miss Flite is mistaken about the English nobility
   • Dickens on the one great principle of the English law
   • Dickens on Coodle and Doodle settling their differences
   • Dickens's Esther Summerson on Richard Clare's hopefulness
   • Dickens on the coming of the railways
   • Mark Oakley on the shallow end of the pool
   • Conor McPherson on Samuel Beckett's vocation
   • Charles Dickens on the effect of Jarndyce & Jarndyce
   • Dickens' Harold Skimpole showing generosity to a debt-collector

10. march 2006

    • Adolf Hitler and organizational responsibility
    • Stephan Collini on the absence of theory in British public debate
    • Stephan Collini on the figure of the intellectual
    • Declan Butler of Nature magazine on smart dust
    • using Google Sitemaps
    • Maria Lord on composers claimed by Vienna
    • Pulp Fiction and the retirement of Krzysztof Kieslowski
    • Emily Bell of The Guardian on archiving websites
    • Owen Chadwick on Michael Ramsey and Walter Walsh
    • Aldous Huxley on ‘living without a metaphysic’
    • Theodore Adorno and bureaucracy
    • alternative views of the future from George Orwell and Aldous Huxley

11. february 2006

    • Jung's influence on Samuel Beckett
    • creating a podcast
    • 17th century cannabis pioneer's journal found
    • Carl Jung on the gods having become diseases
    • the Church Fathers on a finite world
    • Philoponus on the beginning of the universe
    • The Fourth Lateran Council and Etienne Tempier on the creation
    • Aquinas on an eternally created world
    • Terry Fenton on Tilman Riemenschneider and the difference between Late Gothic North and Renaissance South in art
    • Greg Masters on Joseph Beuys and beauty
    • Jonathan Jones on Art Since 1900
    • Roger Kimball on Rosalind Krauss
    • Michael Ann Holly on art history and theory
    • participants contributing to books online as they are published
    • audio formats and compression
    • Arnold Bax on experiences to avoid

12. january 2006

    • Claire Bishop on installation art as an immersive experience
    • Joseph Beuys on creativity in the whole of life
    • Adam Phillips on the paradoxes of Freud's writings
    • when naive artists want to improve themselves ...
    • Donald Sinden on the Victorians and church architecture