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

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

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11 жыл бұрын

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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@wildheart192 11 жыл бұрын

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

@EclecticSceptic 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing, thank you.

@MrIzzyDizzy 11 жыл бұрын

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

@liontiigerbear 11 жыл бұрын

Incredible

@marinpaloma 6 жыл бұрын

lo queremos en español por favor

@ElectricChaplain 11 жыл бұрын

@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.

@psaunier10 11 жыл бұрын

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

@ElectricChaplain 11 жыл бұрын

@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.

@ElectricChaplain 11 жыл бұрын

@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.

@wiso00o 11 жыл бұрын

cmd v

@ElectricChaplain 11 жыл бұрын

@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.

@psaunier10 11 жыл бұрын

It's a catastrophe I visited this video.