power
Transformers being installed to power Argonne's new Supercomputer at the Theory and Computing Sciences Building.
People interact in strange ways… All powerful. The curious thing is how much power resides in the Other. Sure that was God for a time. But even without a supreme being, people still knowingly or unknowingly attribute events to some more powerful Other.
I saw The Class, a movie directed by Laurence Cantet, and written by François Bégaudeau. and then read a review in The London Review of Books by Michael Wood.
The teacher Mr.Marin, unknowingly attributes Power to discipline and structure of the French language, as well as the hierarchical relationship between teachers and students. Unfortunately the review missed some essential details to the movie: the traumatic incident was not initiated by Mr Marin’s comment that 13 year old Esmeralda and her female classmate were acting like “skanks,” but that previously, Mr Marin referred to another classmate, Souleymane as intellectually limited in front of these two students. Since Esmeralda and her friend were surprised by Mr Marin’s display of hierarchical superiority the comment naturally, in junior high school gossip, made it back to Souleymane.
The saddest part of the movie is the very end, of the movie and the semester, when another “quiet background” classmate, truly and honestly, admits that she hasn’t learned anything all year.