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Ada Bronowski

Ada Bronowski is a writer, scriptwriter and VR film-maker. She published a book on ancient Stoic metaphysics, The Stoics on Lekta: All There is to Say (OUP), and an edited volume of letters from writers and artists from antiquity to the modern day called Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life (Bloomsbury). She writes about dance, literature, philosophy, film and tv. Email: ada.bronowski [at] gmail.com

Blanche Gardin, heroine of a resistance to what exactly?

Posted on Monday, Aug 21, 2023 2:05AMMonday, August 21, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski It is a truth Disneylandly acknowledged that ‘when the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world’. A famous piece of advice given by the little meerkat from The Lion King encapsulates a philosophy that grounds not only the destinies of all the great Disney heroes, from…

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Nanni Moretti, from the End to the Beginning

Posted on Monday, Jun 26, 2023 1:30AMMonday, June 26, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski Nanni Moretti has always been a melancholic in denial. Perhaps more than any other film-director raised on the French New Wave – born in 1953, shooting his first short in 1973 – Moretti has been turning around the question that François Truffaut posed as a key to the seventh art: is cinema…

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The Erudite Philistine

Posted on Monday, May 29, 2023 1:40AMMonday, May 29, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski One of the amusing things about academic conferences – for a European – is to meet with American scholars. Five minutes into an amicable conversation with an American scholar and they will inevitably confide in a European one of two complaints: either how all their fellow American colleagues are ‘philistines’ (a favourite…

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Israel and Poetic Spleen

Posted on Monday, May 1, 2023 1:25AMMonday, May 1, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski The state of Israel is on the brink of deliquescence. A corrupt multi-indicted prime minister has handed the reins of government to extremist (read: blood-thirsty) right-wing (read: populist imperialist) religious (read: obscurantist) coalition parties whose alliance is based on a net refusal to heed the Israeli Supreme Court and a pact to…

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The Theatre in Nazi-Occupied Paris

Posted on Monday, Apr 3, 2023 1:35AMMonday, April 3, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski  There is something bewildering about life in Paris under Nazi occupation: theatres, cinemas, cabarets and cafés in full swing, swarming with Nazi officials mingling with the locals, when, all the while, people are arrested in broad daylight, dragged out of their apartments, tracked, tortured and killed for being Jewish or communist, active…

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How He Saw Himself: on Füssli as a Goblin

Posted on Monday, Jan 9, 2023 1:35AMMonday, January 9, 2023 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski  The weird and wonderful painter Johann Heinrich Füssli (1741-1825), whose most famous work is undoubtedly The Nightmare from 1781, presents an interesting case of dysmorphia. The Nightmare is as disturbing as it is entrancing with its undercurrents of erotic terror and dreamy fantasy, but its surface horror is perhaps not what is…

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The Fantasy of Virginity

Posted on Monday, Dec 12, 2022 1:40AMMonday, December 12, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski Why celebrate first times? If, admittedly, from the first time you have sex to the first time you taste escargots à la bourguignonne, hear Allegri’s Miserere or read Dostoevsky’s Demons, you, personally, undergo internal cataclysms which change you permanently, are not these moments blatant gulfs of ignorance and inexperience that you thankfully…

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We Can’t Work (It) Out

Posted on Monday, Nov 14, 2022 1:40AMMonday, November 14, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski A philosopher and a stand-up comedian walk into a bar…the beginning of a joke? Or perhaps a history of humanity from the margins. The philosopher and the stand-up comedian are two figures that keep reappearing across the ages, cutting familiar silhouettes of odd bodies making odd claims about the world and its…

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Out of Indifference

Posted on Monday, Oct 17, 2022 1:55AMMonday, October 17, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski Indifference is an attitude first theorised as a philosophical stance by ancient Greek Stoic philosophers from the 3rd century BC. It was conceived as the right attitude to cultivate in reaction to indifferent things. What was surprising were the things the Stoics considered to be indifferent and hence require us to be…

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God(ard) is dead. Long live Godard.

Posted on Monday, Sep 19, 2022 1:40AMMonday, September 19, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski On the 13th September 2022, Jean-Luc Godard, the Franco-Swiss film-director, film-poet, film-philosopher, died at the age of 91. One of the most imaginative, rebellious, truly courageous artists on this planet whose existence, in more ways than can be enumerated in language, changed the face of our modernity, decided to end his life…

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The Tragedy of Ignorance

Posted on Monday, Aug 22, 2022 1:55AMMonday, August 22, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski The encounter between Oedipus and the Sphinx has always represented the encounter between two incompatible worlds: chaos versus reason, myth versus history, woman against man, enigmatic verbosity against crystal-clear clarity. Only one of these worlds can survive the clash. The Sphinx’s riddle: what stays the same yet walks on four feet in…

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The Age of Exclamation

Posted on Monday, Jul 25, 2022 1:30AMMonday, July 25, 2022 by Ada Bronowski

by Ada Bronowski More than an age of anxiety or anger, of indignation or self-righteousness, we live in an age of the constant high. We need not consume drugs or get inebriated to be met on a daily basis with sights and behaviours to which the only reasonable reaction is an alternation between ‘wow!’ and…

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