Miyazaki's Beautiful Dream: The Technological Sublime

Hayao Miyazaki tries to imagine an engineer that can sidestep questions of ethics by dedicating himself to the pursuit of the technological sublime.

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chapters
00:00 Fighting is Never Justified
01:48 Nature vs Technology
03:20 Jiro Holds His Tongue
04:44 Jiro's Deep Kindness and Grace
06:50 The Technological Sublime
08:26 Why Go to the Moon? Why Does Rice Play Texas?
15:22 Whitey on the Moon
18:44 Romanticism as Escape

films
Apollo 11 (2019)
First Man (2018)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
The Wind Rises (2013)

music
nude, eternally https://github.com/kousun12/eternal

other
Gil Scott Heron The Bottle    • Gil Scott Heron The Bottle  
How Michael Collins became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 1 https://theguardian.com/science/2009/...
Mitsubishi A5M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubi...
President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University    • President Kennedy's Speech at Rice Un...  
WONDER SOUND MAKING / WONDA 極 BLACK    • WONDER SOUND [MAKING] /WONDA 極 BLACK  
Whitey's on the Moon https://theguardian.com/science/2019/...

reading
American Technological Sublime: Our Civil Religion, LM Sacasas https://thefrailestthing.com/2011/10/...
The Life of the Mind in America, Perry Miller https://www.amazon.com/Life-Mind-Amer...
The Moon-doggle, Amitai Etzioni https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

bonus
Why Does Miyazaki HATE America?    • Why Does Miyazaki HATE America? Ghibl...  

thanks
Charles Forman
Cynthia Arzaga Fredette
Katya Landau
Matt Prewitt
Nam Patel
Rob Cheung
Wendy Liu

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