Beyond the shore biography definition

Summary of Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore has achieved widespread recognition for the way in which his work has moved documentary and landscape photography beyond the monumental and newsworthy and toward explorations of everyday life and the emotions with which people see. Shore was heavily influenced by his time spent at Andy Warhol's Factory as a teenager, developing into a photographer with a persistent interest in serialization and the quotidian across a practice embracing experimentation and new technologies. Shore's best-known work, taken over the course of long drives across the United States and Canada, reconsiders the North American interior, showing these countries through overlooked details rather than romantic formulas and challenging the photographic establishment's dismissal of color through unapologetic use of bright shades and unusual tonal contrasts. In recent years, Shore has continued to innovate, exploring new forms of street photography, portraiture and the possib

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Yes, I went there. I finally acknowledged the elephant in the room, and I am writing now about the most used and abused quote about infinity.

To boundlessness and above?

I'm talking of course about the infamous catchphrase of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story or, as Imdb puts it:

[repeated line] 
Buzz: To infinity, and beyond! 

What is the meaning of "To infinity and beyond?" 

It seems a throwaway line, but hidden there is a deep philosophical meaning. It pops up here and there in pop culture and even in random discussions with friends. In A Space Odissey just before the psychedelic "Star Gate" sequence a title card appear, "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" (an inspiration for Buzz?). In the hit Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Beyoncé sings " and delivers me to a destiny, to infinity and beyond.", There are then the album Beyond the Infinite, bygd trance group Juno Reactor, or the Greek film Eternity and a Day, by director Theo Angelopoulos. In this sentenc

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The Nothing Beyond Nothing

Either in spite or because of its disasters, the twentieth century produced an abundance of great writers and intellectuals. Maurice Blanchot was among the major ones. Born into a well-off French Catholic family in , he suffered serious health problems for most of his life—as early as the s he would alert friends that he was writing his final book or letter—yet he died in at the age of ninety-five. His mauvaise santé de fer (a French expression meaning “poor health of iron”) was only one of the many paradoxes that dominated his life and thought.

If Dante were able to update his Divine Comedy today, he most likely would place Blanchot in the sphere of Saturn, the fjärrstyrd, cold, and silent seventh heaven reserved for the contemplatives. Here a golden ladder stretches up into the abyss of ultimate mystery. Blanchot was a mystic without God who climbed that ladder into the most rarefied regions of verbal and conceptual abstr