Bound’s (1996) Politics of Becoming

            This post I want to once again visit  Andy and Larry Wachowski’s film “Bound” – this time from the perspective of William Connolly’s Bergsonian idea of duration (as advanced in his book Pluralism). The specific scene that is of interest is the scene where Corky and Violet plan to steal the money. It is a scene that has a number of temporal oddities that well reflects the temporal politics of becoming. My thesis is that Bound, in this scene, gives a good representation

Premonition (2007) and Louis Althusser

Sandra Bullock’s recent movie Premonition is a really interesting case to examine in light of Louis Althusser’s theory of ideology (as expressed in his article “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses“). I’m going to start giving a rough outline of the overall meaning I take from the movie using Althusser’s theory of ideology. I will then attempt to explain some of the inconsistencies I saw in the movie.

Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative and Thelma and Louise

This post is an attempt to move Robert Cover’s theory of nomoi from its original theoretical space (American critical legal studies) into the realm of cultural theory (i.e. to extract from it a methodology, a hermeneutic device, that can be used to examine cultural objects). There are three parts: the first is an exegesis of the hermeneutic device; the second is a specific application of it to the film Thelma and Louise; the third is a brief comparison of it with Louis Althusser’s theory.