d. question 23.

["is addiction just a bad word for passion?"]


do we pursue a passion and an addiction pursues us?
is a passion internal and an addiction external?
are we outside of a passion, attempting to get in, while inside an addiction, trying to get out?

angelus novus

"A Klee painting named 'Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one picturs the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that he angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress."
Walter Benjamin, "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." 1940

Oneiric (film theory)

the depiction of dream-like states in films, or to the use of the metaphor of a dream or the dream-state to analyze a film

For the real houses of memory, the houses to which we return in dreams, the houses that are rich in unalterable oneirism, do not readily lend themselves to description. - bachelard, poetics of space