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proposals to ViewFinder Magazine. We
are looking for essays and articles on: film, television, radio, education,
research projects involving the moving image, plus book and DVD reviews.
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peer review. It is also a great space for research students and post-grads to
get their work out to the public.
The next issue is based on Masculinity – Exploring representations of gender,
masculinity, male and female behaviour on film, television, radio and in
education. From old patriarchy in the industry, to new forms of masculinity in
the millennium, this issue aims to spotlight one of the more pressing identity
issues of today.
Deadline for final draft submissions is
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More Knee-cha
Mass shooting
Knee – cha
SS: Remembering Mom
Thinking about Mom: the last time I saw her I drove from Canada to Colorado to visit her in her in her final rest home. A young Lutheran minister was there.
He was visibly upset by her condition. Mom told him “All is well. You may go now.” He did.
She then asked me to say the doxology. (I remembered it!) Our daughter, Margaret Riley, was present. After a short conversation, Mom said, “You should go home to your wife now, son. I love you.”
And I did. And I do.
Dad, Peg, Grandma, Mom 
Mom and her kids 
Phyl, Peg, Beth, Bud, Mom, Bob 
Kids for the climate
Review: “The Existential Drinker”
Exercise your brain!
Several Thought Experiments
William James’ squirrel:
SOME YEARS AGO, being with a camping party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find every one engaged in a ferocious metaphysical dispute. The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel – a live squirrel supposed to be clinging to one side of a tree-trunk; while over against the tree’s opposite side a human being was imagined to stand. This human witness tries to get sight of the squirrel by moving rapidly round the tree, but no matter how fast he goes, the squirrel moves as fast in the opposite direction, and always keeps the tree between himself and the man, so that never a glimpse of him is caught. The resultant metaphysical problem now is this: Does the man go round the squirrel or not? He goes round the tree, sure enough, and the squirrel is on the tree; but does he go round the squirrel? [Stop for discussion] In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare. Every one had taken sides, and was obstinate; and the numbers on both sides were even. Each side, when I appeared therefore appealed to me to make it a majority. Mindful of the scholastic adage that whenever you meet a contradiction you must make a distinction, I immediately sought and found one, as follows: “Which party is right,” I said, “depends on what you practically mean by ‘going round’ the squirrel. If you mean passing from the north of him to the east, then to the south, then to the west, and then to the north of him again, obviously the man does go round him, for he occupies these successive positions. But if on the contrary you mean being first in front of him, then on the right of him, then behind him, then on his left, and finally in front again, it is quite as obvious that the man fails to go round him, for by the compensating movements the squirrel makes, he keeps his belly turned towards the man all the time, and his back turned away. Make the distinction, and there is no occasion for any farther dispute. You are both right and both wrong according as you conceive the verb ‘to go round’ in one practical fashion or the other.”
