#aleksandar hemon

[fatchance]

“Home is where people notice when you are not there.”

— Aleksandar Hemon, The World and All It Holds, 2023.

#quotation #The World and All It Holds #Aleksandar Hemon #home

[soracities]

There is no way to leave history. There is no other place to go. As a diasporic person I’ve learned that it’s in fact really easy to leave your country. What is difficult is leaving its history, as it follows (or leads) you like a shadow.

Aleksandar Hemon, interviewing Teju Cole for Bomb Magazine

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[vintagewarhol]

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[covertrook]

After I returned to my country after the war, I found I had to re-learn the language, because there were new words, or words took on new meaning, because of the war, and as I was in exile during the war, I hadn't learned them, or their new meaning. - Quote approximated from Aleksandar Hemon

#covertrook #quote #aleksandar hemon #returned #country #war #language #new #words #meaning #exile

[kitchen-light]

In Bosnian, there are no words that are equivalent to “fiction” and “nonfiction,” or that convey the distinction between them. This is not to say that there is no truth or falsehood. Rather, the stress is on storytelling. The closest translation of nonfiction would really be “true stories.”

Aleksandar Hemon, in an interview with Teju Cole, published in BOMB magazine, April 1, 2014

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[wellconstructedsentences]

There could be no history without catastrophe; to outline a history, one had to narrate its disasters; to formulate one's position in the world, one had to define oneself in relation to the experienced catastrophes.

My Parents by Aleksandar Hemon

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[jerichopalms]

*The Matrix Resurrections (2021, dir. by Lana Wachowski

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[lunamarish]

Il mondo è fatto di sconosciuti, di parti scombinate e di oggetti semplici che cercano di esistere in uno spazio, di essere raccolti in una qualche unità, come le parole, come le frasi. 

Aleksandar Hemon

#Aleksandar Hemon #citazione #mondo #parole

[bookwormlily]

That's it, isn't it? If we don't know what's real, we can't resist.

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Written by Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon

#the matrix resurrections #lana wachowski #david mitchell #aleksandar hemon

[lale-i-knjige]

Oko sebe sam izgradio neprobojni štit nezainteresovanosti koji mi je omogućavao da se izmaknem, čitam, povučen u svojoj ćeliji, a da to niko ne primijeti.

| Aleksandar Hemon, Ljubav i prepreke |

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

In its defense, The Matrix Revolutions did say that we might one day see Neo again so The Matrix Resurrections doesn’t come out of nowhere. It even introduces some interesting ideas in its first half - only to abandon them in favor of familiar territory.

Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is the creator of a video game series called The Matrix. Upon release, it revolutionized the gaming world and now, Warner Bros. wants another chapter. Having based many of the characters in the game on his real life, Tom worries revisiting the world will cause his past mental health issues to return in force. How could they not when his partner at the company, Smith (Jonathan Groff), irritates him, he keeps running into the woman that inspired Trinity (Tiffany, played by Carrie-Anne Moss) and events from the adventures in Zion creep into his psyche despite repeated sessions with his therapist (played by Neil Patrick Harris)?

I like what this film does in the beginning. What is this? Another layer of the Matrix in which Neo has been tricked into believing he’s just an ordinary person who dreamed up the war between humans and machines? Is this the next version of the chosen one after something went wrong and Zion was destroyed? Could it be something different altogether? The original trilogy defined the early 2000s action genre. It feels strange to see Keanu Reeves reprise his role in a world that’s so much like it was back then but also… not. People are glued to their cellphones and the originality of The Matrix is being turned into a soulless franchise by the corporate machine. It’s meta in a way that feels smart and seeing Tom in endless meetings where people insist this new Matrix can’t be just “another reboot, retread, regurgitated” while they provide no innovative ideas is an even more hellish prison than the cubicles we saw Neo escape from. The way the colour blue is so clearly present in each therapy session, combined with the parallels between the ordinary people and the icons from the trilogy of films (shown through archival footage) make you wonder what’s happening. Or at least, they would if the movie didn’t give it all away in a scene that introduces a bunch of new characters, played by Jessica Henwick and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

It’s pretty obvious that we are, indeed, seeing Neo and Trinity in some new digital prison. That’s not necessarily bad but it does show that director Lana Wachowski (more likely, the studio) didn’t have much confidence in the audience. Once Neo catches up to us, details about the world prove things have changed since we last saw these characters… but only superficially. By the time the second hour begins, we’re just seeing the same things we saw before: Neo and Trinity fighting against the Matrix, Agent Smith causing trouble and the artificial prison trying to keep everyone in check. I would’ve much rather seen some of the events mentioned in passing play out, like a machine v machine war for energy, a great purge within the Matrix that saw many familiar faces deleted (though not all; there are some eye-rolling cameos), or the rebuilding of the human civilization. What we get instead, I’m sorry to say, feels an awfully lot like “another reboot, retread, regurgitated”.

The action scenes are fine. There are a couple of new tricks brought up but nothing compares to the excitement we saw in the first three movies. The special effects are solid but again, they don’t dazzle the way they did back in the day. Everything feels nerfed because we know Thomas Anderson is just a cage Neo is trying to break out of, and the mystery comes to us half-solved. Say what you will about the Matrix sequels. Maybe not all of it made sense, maybe they weren’t as deep as they thought they were but they were memorable. You have vivid memories of that highway chase with the twins, of that endless wave of sentinels rushing towards those mech suits, etc. Resurrections does not feel like an uncompromised idea; it feels like another piece of an IP.

I actually watched the film twice to cement how I felt about it and enjoyed it more the second time. I still feel that we didn’t need another Matrix and that what it brings could’ve been used better elsewhere. At one point, Tiffany asks “How do you know if you want something or if your upbringing programmed you to want it?” and the picture touches upon this idea that when you become successful, fans will analyze something to death, finding all sorts of meanings in things that probably didn’t have any in the first place. Those are great ideas that don’t pay off. If you choose to watch The Matrix Resurrections anyway, do yourself a favor and skip the scene at the end of the credits. It’s one of the worst I’ve seen in I don’t know how long. (March 2nd & 3rd, 2022)

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[soracities]

In Bosnian, there are no words that are equivalent to “fiction” and “nonfiction,” or that convey the distinction between them. This is not to say that there is no truth or falsehood. Rather, the stress is on storytelling. The closest translation of nonfiction would really be “true stories.”

Aleksandar Hemon, interviewing Teju Cole for Bomb Magazine

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[queerographies]

[Il mondo e tutto ciò che contiene][Aleksandar Hemon]

Clicca qui per acquistare il libro Titolo: Il mondo e tutto ciò che contieneScritto da: Aleksandar HemonTitolo originale: The World and All That It HoldsTradotto da: Maurizia BalmelliEdito da: CrocettiAnno: 2023Pagine: 368ISBN: 9788883064005 Quando un certo giorno di giugno del 1914 giunge a Sarajevo l’arciduca Francesco Ferdinando, Rafael Pinto è intento a frantumare erbe e a preparare…

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[kammartinez]

#writing #philosophy #aleksandar hemon

[kamreadsandrecs]

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[booksonmoon]

Love and Obstacles

📝 Author: Aleksandar Hemon ⭐️ Rating: 3/5 🎧 Listening to: N/A

Thoughts:

It took me about two stories to get into the groove of this book. (Wasn't the book's fault.) Love and Obstacles a collection of short stories that are all interconnected and narrated by an unnamed Bosnian writer. It felt to me like the Bosnian War, which is the backdrop of this book, is a massive waterfall the droplets of which travel far and wide. Among the thousands of balding stones that this waterfall touched, there is one that I got to explore. It seems as if the narrator has handpicked the 8 stories, when viewed as a whole, to demonstrate each and every important stage of his life, from a sensitive teenager to a famous Bosnian writer. One thing I enjoyed about this collection was that the stories often took unsuspecting turns to violence or some kind of dull, throbbing ache without giving up on the humour. The characters too are nicely fleshed out, not too much and not too less.

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