I’ve always meant to buy myself a copy of the 1927 film Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s futuristic tale of class struggle and sexy robots, but I never got around to it (though I’ve seen it on tv a couple of times). Now I’m glad I waited.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Hmm… from Germany to Argentina?
Not an unprecedented trajectory ….
In related news, the story of Metropolis was co-authored by Lang and his wife, Thea von Harbou. Lang was anti-Nazi and left Germany in 1933. Von Harbou was pro-Nazi and stayed.
Updates here.
What a coincidence. I just heard that they found a print of the complete, uncut original version of “Triumph of the Will” in Crawford, Texas.
But in all seriousness, that’s pretty cool news.