What We’re Reading
Shakespeare, Richard III. Shakespeare’s Richard III is a political tragedy dealing with the rise and fall of Richard III and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty of…
Hellenic Tantra
Legions of Westerners taking up seemingly benign “spiritual technologies” such as sound healing and mantra meditation often do not realize that tantric praxis also a long precedent…
A Clockwork Orange: A Whig Tale of Absolute Evil
As with all great films, works of art or music and books, it is always the subtle, the partially said and unsaid, the understated but pervasive theme…
2001: An Allegory of the Violence of Technological Evolution
At the beginning of the 2016 film Arrival, the scientist Ian remarks to the linguist Louise that language is not the foundation of civilization. Rather than language, he…
Is Kubrick for Real? On Another Magic of the Extreme
mobiles ad superstitionem perculsae semel mentes (minds once shocked are prone to superstition) ~ Tacitus, Annales, 1.28. The title of this piece implies two questions: what…
Kubrick in the Trenches
General Mireau: I can't understand these armchair officers, fellas trying to fight a war from behind a desk, waving papers at the enemy, worrying about whether a…
2001: A Space Odyssey: Contemplative Tone Poem
Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do! I’m half crazy, All for the love of you! It won’t be a stylish marriage, I can’t afford a carriage,…
Piercing the Soul of Modernity: The Life of a Reclusive Genius
Writing the biography of most great men tends to be a difficult undertaking, for reasons as varied as the uniqueness of each such man. When exploring the…
Kubrick Week Starts Tomorrow
Tomorrow begins a week dedicated to the films of Stanley Kubrick. VOGELINVIEW will be publishing an assortment of essays and articles dealing with the filmography of Stanley…
Power, Politics, and Memory
Machiavelli was right that a core aspect of political power was premised on our conceptualized of past heroes. More than offering a vision of realpolitik, as commonly…
Ozark Elegy: Six Scenes From a Funeral
1 “Our story’s not a cypher, Jude,” Dad said. “It’s written in the clay of this hill, and on the stones planted in it.” We stood, together,…
Golden Age Movies: On the Two American Dreams
Images, and films in particular – being movies, or moving images – play a fundamental and often ignored role in understanding our reality. Our memory is stored…
Predestined to Greatness: Patton in Mexico
History is replete with men, whether good, bad, or ugly, who considered themselves great or at least more historically significant than the rest of humanity. One only…
Kubrick Week: March 23-29
VOEGELINVIEW is pleased to announce that between March 23-29 we will be publishing an assortment of essays and articles dealing with the filmography of Stanley Kubrick, exploring…