Dr. Cornel West - Blues for Smoke - MOCA U - MOCAtv - Ep. 17

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Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. He made his film debut in "The Matrix" (1999) and is the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the Matrix trilogy, released in 2004.
In part one of his contribution to the "Blues for Smoke" interviews, Dr. West argues that the blues is not so much about triumph as it is about resistance and survival. He educates the viewer on the pain that became Blind Willie Johnson's blues. West claims that at the center of the blues is an individual yearning to find one's voice.
Talent: Dr. Cornel West
Producers: Jeremy Berry and Eugenia Marshall
Directors: Jeremy Berry and Eugenia Marshall
Editor: Travon Brumfield
Camera: Douglas Ferguson and Elegance Bratton
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16 окт 2024

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Комментарии : 13

@wildheart192 11 лет назад

Best bit is when he knocks the picture with his testifying gestures

@MrIzzyDizzy 12 лет назад

no one can rant like dr west. - i loved it - ty

@EclecticSceptic 12 лет назад

Amazing, thank you.

@liontiigerbear 12 лет назад

Incredible

@psaunier10 12 лет назад

You and your dealer must be best friends. He is hooking you guys up with a potent stash.

@ElectricChaplain 12 лет назад

@psaunier10: I hope I'm not sounding like a mindless name dropper, so I'll make my point clear by saying that the blues, more so than the eternal recurrence and the Knight of Faith, speaks volumes about the tenacity and "eternal validity" of the human spirit against the sheer weight of mental, physical, emotional, and institutional death than any philosophical treatise.

@ElectricChaplain 12 лет назад

@psaunier10: Well, not an "evolution", but when you look at other existentialist works like Kafka's The Trial or Kierkegaard's Knight of Faith in regard to Regine or so on the similarities are too interesting to scoff away as you are doing.

@marinpaloma 6 лет назад

lo queremos en español por favor

@ElectricChaplain 12 лет назад

@psaunier10: You see, West's definition of the blues is an evolution from Nietzsche's eternal recurrence and Kundera's denouncement of kitsch in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. West's definition of the blues is highly existentialist in nature.

@ElectricChaplain 12 лет назад

@psaunier10: It's a catastrophe that you can't appreciate this video and what West has to say. Go with your hubris Gloucester, but don't flaunt your blindness to those who want to see.