{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f18aefdd0a1444492e069bb/5f18af9377441e58fcd19e68?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Arrival Time\t(2018)","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f18aefdd0a1444492e069bb/1595502020334-ae477486e99046f8b549031239e6fefb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Through Gotthard Günther's probing of American science fiction for the beginnings of a new metaphysics, Rickels folds out the Enlightenment vision of life after death as enrollment in continuing education programs on the outer planets. A new secular afterlife that arrives from outer space in the 2016 SF movie <em>Arrival</em> orbits this Enlightenment introject. But the looping of time cannot elide wishing upon the stars -- and our second nature as daydreamers keeps our No's to the grind of unmourning.</p><p><br></p><p>In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. ...</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMK78ZjnobQ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Arrival</em>, Denis Villeneuve (2016)</a></p><p>A free version of the film is not yet available online. Watching the film beginning with the first visit to the spaceship is recommended.</p><p>The film should be muted while viewing.</p>","author_name":"Laurence Rickels"}