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Spartan Daily, May 12, 2008

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Spartan Daily, May 12, 2008

Volume 130, Issue 56https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10482/thumbnail.jp

'Things ain’t what they used to be’: Marvin Gaye and the making of “What’s Going On”

Born 1939 in Washington, D.C, Marvin Pentz Gay Jnr (who later added the “e” to his name) was one of four born to a mother he remained devoted to throughout his life and a father whose cross-dressing tendencies he reportedly found both humiliating and confusing. A minister for a small Hebrew Pentecostal sect, according to his daughter, Marvin Gay Snr. was not one to “spare the rod” when it came to his children. Violence coursed through Gaye’s life (in a BBC Radio 2 documentary to commemorate the 40th anniversary of What’s Going On, Gaye also alluded to frequent scuffles with Motown boss Berry Gordy), culminating in his violent death at the hands of his father in 1984

Spartan Daily, April 2, 1981

Volume 76, Issue 47https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6751/thumbnail.jp

WALL-E’s world: animating Badiou’s philosophy

This article illustrates the philosophy of Alain Badiou through Pixar’s 2008 animation ‘WALL-E’. The fictional story tells of a toxic planet Earth long abandoned following an ecological disaster. Humanity now exists in a floating brave new world; a spaceship whose passengers’ everyday existence is drowned by a consumptive slumber. That is, until a robot named WALL-E comes aboard and changes things forever. The purpose of making this connection between philosophy and film is not to trivialize Badiou’s work, but rather to open it up, pull it apart, and synchronize it with a movie that is saturated with Badiouian themes. Beneath the complexities of Being and Event’s set-theory and the Logics of Worlds’ algebra, lay a set of ideas that are fizzing with creativity and disruptive potential. WALL-E gives these political and philosophical ideas a lived expression to a wide audience. The central motif of the article is that the finitude of appearance in a world is constantly overrun by the infinitude of being, and this requires a new theorization of site-based geographies. From the miraculous discovery of a plant growing on a dead Earth, to the tumultuous arrival of WALL-E onboard a spaceship that he never belonged to, the stability of a world is always threatened by a ‘point of excess’, called the site. Three interrelated concepts of Badiou’s will be animated in this article: atonic and tensed worlds, sites, and subjects

Wavelength (June 1984)

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Wavelength (June 1984)

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Wavelength (June 1984)

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