Media/Tek Studies
B.A. Analytical Philosophy, UCLA
M.A. Media Management Studies, The New School
Media Research, Media & Urban Environments
Words
Designed Media: Disembodiment for “Embodiment”
Sept 2012 Nima Moinpour. The New School. Media Studies
An essay, showcasing the importance of designing within the perspective of time and place, by referencing metaphysics and epistemology within the western philosophical tradition.
Embodiment-
It is ubiquitous in all creative realms and it seems whether they know it or not designers, artists, architects, producers and media theorists are all, to a high extent, after achieving and/or defining this concept in one way or other. But do we know what we are talking about when we utter the words “Embodiment?” What does it purport to refer?
Archiving, Memory, Attachment
Dec 2014. Nima Moinpour. The New School. Media Studies
“Where as historiography is founded on teleology and narrative closure, the archive is discontinuous, ruptured. The archive is traumatic, testimony not to a successful encounter with the past but to what Jacques Lacan has referred to as the ‘missed encounter with the real” that is, an allegory of the impossible bridging of a gap.” Though an ephemeral goal, it is a process that each individual, community and generation cannot help going through." - Wolfgang Ernst
Individual vs. Collective Agency
March 2009. Nima Moinpour. UCLA Philosophy of Language
The self-interest principle states, “You should do, of the acts available to you, the act that makes your life go best.” Intuitively convincing, it however involves a complication. Even though, this principle works on individuals, it is proposed that, once applied to the collective, the principle becomes dysfunctional. In other words, one could say, that it is collectively self-defeating. In this essay, I’ll first expose how it is claimed to be dysfunctional, by presenting an example. Then, explore if the claim is right, is it the case that the self-interest principle is a sham?
Leaves & Roots
February 2007. Nima Moinpour. UCLA
My speech for 2008 UCLA MLK Speech Competition. Theme: Ease into history’s request.
UCLA Daily Bruin
May 2009. Nima Moinpour. UCLA
A selection of writing from my time at UCLA Daily Bruin Arts & Entertainment section. Contributed articles in film and product review.
Film Review- Screen Scene: “The Hurt Locker”
Film Review- Screen Scene: “Angels & Demons”
Portryal- Jimmy Stewart. Ttribute to his attributes
Product Discovery-College peer-to-peer network is face-to-face
Music & Emotions
May 2008. Nima Moinpour. UCLA
In this essay I will first introduce Kivy’s original theory of musical expression, mentioned in Jenefer Robinson’s article, The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music, and then proceed to analyze and make comments about his later remarks regarding what he distinguished as cognitively complex emotions.
In defense of Intentionalism
March 2009. Nima Moinpour. UCLA Philosophy of Language
This essay was about how us not making sense to each other is neither party’s fault but both and neither at the same time, and that communication should be looked at contextually and collaboratively in order to sway away from miscommunication. He said, she said, I heard, we heard, paradox. No one means. No one/thing intends to miscommunicate. Everything means something.