Monday, June 11, 2007

ADVENTURES IN LIBERAL ARTS: American philosopher Richard Rorty and Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène both passed away over the weekend. There's nothing really that unites their deaths other than the fact that I learned who both of them were during my freshman year in college, and that I never really invested enough time to truly understand what either of them were doing, except that Sembène's film Xala was both funny and compelling. Beyond that? You tell me.

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