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Film Review: David Barison and Daniel Ross (Directors). The Ister [Film]. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. Part One (102 minutes) and Part Two (87 minutes)

Film Review: David Barison and Daniel Ross (Directors). The Ister [Film]. Brooklyn, NY: First... Film Review David Barison and Daniel Ross (Directors). The Ister [Film]. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. Part One (102 minutes) and Part Two (87 minutes). DOI: 10.1177/1086026607309402 After Bernard Stiegler published Technics and Time, he was sitting in his office one day when two Australians turned up. They had flown into Amsterdam, bought a VW bus, and come straight there. They wanted to make a film. Stiegler, who turned philosopher in prison for armed robbery, is not easily ruffled. “Well, then,” he said, “you’d better come to my house.” There, as guests arrived to cel- ebrate his 48th birthday, he gave an interview on technology and time, history, war, justice, and death. Thus was begun The Ister. Hesiod’s Theogony mentions “Istros of the beautiful waters,” the lower reaches of what is now known as the Danube. At the close of the 18th century, the young, insane, and for a long time almost completely forgotten poet Hölderlin wrote “Der Ister” about this river. In 1942—the year Hitler decided on his final solution—Heidegger gave a course on this poem at Freiburg University. Barison and Ross have created a cinematographic journey of layers and levels through these lectures “accompanied” by Stiegler, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Film Review: David Barison and Daniel Ross (Directors). The Ister [Film]. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. Part One (102 minutes) and Part Two (87 minutes)

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Organization & Environment , Volume 20 (4): 3 – Dec 1, 2007
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Film Review David Barison and Daniel Ross (Directors). The Ister [Film]. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. Part One (102 minutes) and Part Two (87 minutes). DOI: 10.1177/1086026607309402 After Bernard Stiegler published Technics and Time, he was sitting in his office one day when two Australians turned up. They had flown into Amsterdam, bought a VW bus, and come straight there. They wanted to make a film. Stiegler, who turned philosopher in prison for armed robbery, is not easily ruffled. “Well, then,” he said, “you’d better come to my house.” There, as guests arrived to cel- ebrate his 48th birthday, he gave an interview on technology and time, history, war, justice, and death. Thus was begun The Ister. Hesiod’s Theogony mentions “Istros of the beautiful waters,” the lower reaches of what is now known as the Danube. At the close of the 18th century, the young, insane, and for a long time almost completely forgotten poet Hölderlin wrote “Der Ister” about this river. In 1942—the year Hitler decided on his final solution—Heidegger gave a course on this poem at Freiburg University. Barison and Ross have created a cinematographic journey of layers and levels through these lectures “accompanied” by Stiegler,

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