The Junius Pamphlet- Reflection

“They were competing in their expansion toward the non-capitalist countries and zones of the world. As early as the eighties a strong tendency toward colonial expansion became apparent.”

                                                                                           - "The Junius Pamphlet " Rosa Luxemburg

This quote is taken from chapter three of Rosa Luxemburg essay. And she expressed this to give basic information as to how capitalism and imperialism is become a house hold name to super powers at the time; also how Germany is a big fan too of these capitalistic and imperialistic ideals. Luxemburg sees this trend as a problem between capitalistic powers over territory in there annexes. What it means to me is that capitalism and imperialism start problems between nations because it causes power struggles between greater nations. Then the problems escalades to wars.

M (1931)- Reflection and Questions

The scene I chose from the movie M is when Beckert was looking in the shop window and he saw the little girl in the mirror standing alone. He got this gleam in his eyes and his persona changed from calm to compulsive. He then follows after the young girl but when he turns the corner and saw the child being meeting with her mother he was over taken my another spirit. He then went to drink and smoke of his disappointment that he was not able to abduct her.   

How I interpret this scene is that it sums up the process of what happens to Beckert right before he strikes. The excitement that he experiences as sees these young children and the eagerness towards them as he considers the satisfaction he will get from committing this crime. Also it shows what he experiences when he doesn’t full fill his horrible murders the frustration and pressure on himself.

I chose this scene because it expresses that something is psychologically wrong with Beckert though he functions, looks like and act like all is well with him. He really is not a bad person like everyone in the movie named him to be but he is mentally unstable.

1. Discuss the evolution of police power as it is depicted in Dr. Caligari and M?

In Dr. Caligari the police are seen as less intelligent and sophisticated in there authority and judgments. They also have less power in the sense that they were more controlled by the people, whereas in M they had so much authority that some people resented them.

2. Does the killer deserve to die?

I agree with his attorney that because he is not mentally all there he should not be sentenced to death but be admitted to a psychiatric facility. He doesn’t deserve to die because he cannot help himself to make better judgments but when he gets admitted he should never be released.

3. How does the criminal’s ability to organize themselves affect their ability to capture Beckert?

Their ability to organize themselves helped them mightily in their efforts to capture Beckert.  It was secretly, unexpected and well thought out especially by assigning beggars to watch the area. It reminds me of neighborhood watch groups it is very effective since the limited number of police is not sufficient to cover larger areas.

4. How would you judge the depiction of Nazis as criminals?

The only reason I would rationalize the Nazis as criminals would be for the simple fact that they did acknowledge the law; they always took matters into their own hands. An example of this was the capturing Beckert and deciding to punish him by death their selves.

5. What is the significance of the media in this film?

Media is significant in this film because it shadowed the reality of what was occurring in society. Both positive and negative aspects were made conceptual to the target views at the time. One reason is for them to see what is going on around them if they are not already aware and also if they are aware to use the film as a tool of promotion for things to advocate for or against.

Blue Angel- Questions

1. How would you compare Rath/Lola to Siddhartha/Kamala? Both Rath and Siddhartha feel in love with women who brought out their sensual side, who gave them the feeling of love manhood beyond what they were taught from the society in which they originate. both men in a way found there downfall indirectly tied up in these women. Though Lola and Kamala did not have the most respected careers they were in a sense self sufficient and not the trophy wife types.
2. Is Lola and emancipated woman or totally impassive? I would say that she was emancipated because she did show emotion sometimes good one sometimes aggressive controlling bad ones. She defiantly wore the pants in her marriage to Professor Rath and she also stood up for her self to her boss. She does what she wants and she gets what she wants, I believe it had to do with the idea that she was an American.
3. what is the significance of the clown? In the film I see the clown as some who fell for the lifestyle, got chewed up and spit out as that, a clown. So I see the clown as a victim. When the clown came out and was looking at Professor Rath I doubt that the professor knew that was going to be his future if he tarried in such a place.
4. How is chaos thematically represented in the film? In this film chaos is represented as everything out side of strict order. Among the intellects even the presence of noise is considered chaos. Everything must be under control and that was one of the reason Professor Rath lost his job. 
5. How would you interpret the overall meaning of the film? Your life will become a living hell if you let go of who you are and roll with the tides of life. Keep order in your life it is good for you the things that are glittering and shinny is not always the best things for you.
6. Why did I compare Rath to Haussmann painting montage? would you suggest a better comparison? Rath was the subject of this comparison because he in the beginning of the film represented one who was   scholarly, proper, professional and intellectually dressed on the outside. Serious and orderly but do have inner parts(not just physical but emotional) that was common among men and humamity in the sense that he desire things that was shun to desire openly like pleasure. I think that picture fits him perfect so on better comparison is there.

Blue Angel- Reflection

The scene I choose is the scene when Lola ask Professor Rath to pass her luggage and it fell and all the post cards fell out. He then went on to demand that as long as he has a red penny, the post cards must not be sold. The following scene we witness Professor Rath in the club selling the post cards himself.
I believe this scene to be the beginning of Professor Raft downward spiral. He shifted from who he was to whom his lifestyle had made him. He was up to that point, dignified and had morals that were obvious in his persona. He was also a man of boundaries but all of it went out the window. That was his wife he did not want her to be sold to the public on a post card. He didn’t want others to see in her what he did especially now that he has made her his wife.
As a Professor he was a dignified intellectual who was not a pauper but a man belonging to the decent middle class society. Because he had been bewitched  by the club lifestyle he lost his job and his money finished. He initially told Lola that, “as long as he has a red cent she will not sell those post cards”, when we see him selling the post cards if is only fair to conclude that he has ran out of money.
I chose this scene because as I mention I see this as the beginning of his down fall. I was the first time we actually see Professor Rath smoking and sitting among the commoners or the regular people in the club scene. To see him going around selling her post called was in a way degrading for his character because he lowered his standards by selling his wife picture to other men because he can no longer afford to take care of her. I also chose this scene because it is when he gave up on himself. That was when de decided to embrace the idea that this would be his new reality, he never tried to escape this lifestyle rather he embraced it.

Questions- Siddhartha

1) Why does Siddhartha leave his father?
Siddhartha left his father because he did not just was to be a follower of tradition he wanted to find the experience the notion that he had that the answers with what he needed was not in what he could be taught but by experience.

2)What are some of the reasons why writers like Herman Hesse would be interested in Eastern philosophy and religion?
I think it is because western religion is to them what eastern philosophy is to Siddhartha, it emphasis the spiritual and requires the individual to reject his natural self and experiences.

3) If Siddhartha never lived with Kamala and the people in the city would he have reached Enlightenment faster?
I do not believe he would, with out experience the thing that drove him to his down fall he would have never hit his rock bottom and would never find though his spiritual teaching what he was so searching for.

4) Who is Vasudeva?
Vesudeva is the man whom navigated the boat across the river. Siddhartha learns allot from him about life and the oneness with the universe through the river. Siddhartha also believed he might have been a god.

5) Why does Siddhartha feel the priests cannot see the true beauty of the world?
He thinks so because they have never experienced the other side, they only have the teaching but no real idea of what it is because for one it cannot be expressed in words. Also they have a particular numbness to the world that hinders them from experiencing the beauty of the world.

Siddhartha- Reflection

" I had to spend many years losing my spirit, to unlearn thinking again, to forget the oneness. Isn't it just as if I had turned slowly and on a long detour from a man into a child, from a thinker into a childlike person? And yet, this path has been very good; and yet, the bird in my chest has not died. But what a path has this been! I had to pass through so much stupidity, through so much vices, through so many errors, through so much disgust and disappointments and woe, just to become a child again and to be able to start over. But it was right so, my heart says "Yes" to it, my eyes smile to it. I've had to experience despair, I've had to sink down to the most foolish one of all thoughts, to the thought of suicide, in order to be able to experience divine grace, to hear Om again, to be able to sleep properly and awake properly again. I had to become a fool, to find Atman in me again."- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Before I go on to explain this passage I just want make a suggestion that is an attempt to answer Professor Murdaco, question on similarity of disenchantment to western religion being applicable to eastern religion as it correlates to this passage. Eastern religion according to the perspective of Siddhartha entails some of the same characteristics as 1922 western religion, that turned him away from the way it is practiced, taught and how it is received by the individual. Blindly practicing religion just for the sake of being apart of sect denounces the sole purpose of its promise. Experience is always the best teacher not the words of man because without the experience you will never be able to use what you've learned or appreciate the very thing you sacrifice your self for.

With that being said the meaning of this passage is simply Siddhartha expressing his appreciation for his all experience in his life. He appreciates his encounter with sin because though it he was able to lean on his spiritual/ holy teaching. He found himself when he set out to find an answer for himself, to think beyond what what told to him. To acknowledged what was really puzzling to him, not just accepting to be blind by the veil of tradition. Siddhartha understood that the good and the bad that life offers works together for good, even the very traditions he strayed from not feeling completed by it actually completed him in a later stage of life.

I chose this passage because it is a revelation I have come to myself, that just like a river no phase in life is isolated it is always connected. It is all one so it is never enough to just be content with one phase. Just as spirituality is an important in life experience is also an important teacher/master in life. One thing i know even with raising child there are some children who will listen when the parent say don't touch the fire you will get burned, there are also the children who will have to feel the heat before they get it, and some actually have to get burned. The one thing that I know for sure about these three different example of children is that people who have lost the most learn how to appreciate the most. So I am not surprised that Siddhartha is more learned on his life journey than his friend Govinda, though Siddhartha visited a dark place in life to consider suicide.

Raoul Hausmann

Raoul Hausmann was a native of Austria whom migrated to Berlin Germany in 1901. He was born in 1886 and he died at the age of 84 in 1971 in France. Hausmann was apart of the Dada movement he was an poignant artist, speaker and writer in the movement. He was connected to other important members of the Dada movement such as Hannah Hoch and Richard Huelsenbeck. Hausmann had one daughter two wife and an extensive collection of extramarital affairs.

 

DADA SIEGT 1920

This picture this first thing that catchs my eye is the half of globe with the word dada inside of it. I think that is a symbol of how large Hausmann expects the movement to go. There are no women in this photograph, but there is a man with the brain exposed. there is something that goes off in my head that makes me think of strategy. The is also a basketball in the background which is cool because though it is marked dada it tell me the sport is so important it gets recognition. Anatomy as well as color is a big theme in this photo. Also overlapping and the art of photography.

ELASTICUM 1920

this picture is another one of Hausmann photomontage works. unlike his photographs these collages are a mixture bright and dark colors. This work has colors of yellow blue, orange green, black and white. The image has the presence of a man and a lot of chaos around him. There are all sorts of parts such as tires, screws meter, bolts and even the head of a man in the a background with a hat on. Though the photo has more color it seems very masculine and also very firm as in serious. There are letters floating around in black and white and yellow and orange but it is very hard to make out and decipher it.

TWO NUDES ON A BEACH 1930

this picture is of two nudist on a beach suposidly it is of Hausmann two lovers in whom he photograhy frequent. In this picture unlike the previous two the pictures are lacking color just grey. Both women seem to be turned from the camera maybe to imply face is not important or might be too personal. they are also laying down in the sames manor with knees bended and crossed maybe to symbolize feminism. The subject of the picture both seem to be young due to skin texture and sexuality liberation.