Five Questions with Michael Kelleher
I once spent two weeks at a New York publisher’s office transcribing a ghost writer’s recorded interviews with comedienne Jenny McCarthy. He was writing her 'autobiography.'
The Headless Gentleman
The face, a limb, or a particular sense functions analogically to impede another’s cognition or premonition of interiority or humanity.
Five Questions with Ammiel Alcalay
I remain deeply involved in cartoons.
Where the Fire's Still Burning
Witness testimony and videotape evidence in Sivas showed that police ‘merely gazed at the scene with empty looks‘ as the building was set on fire.
Where is the Line Between Us?
Leila Hatami said A Separation is a very good film and a very honest film. Is that going to be OK, or at least good enough, for now?
Semeiotic Dubai: Peirce and Pop Architecture
'Gold adorned buildings, souks laden with gold jewellery that looks too heavy to wear, gold ATM machines and shopping malls so big you can feel the curvature of the earth...'
The Fire Next Time
If severe overcrowding and the structural violence of the penal system were to blame for the Carandiru massacre, which has become an indelible pockmark on Brazilian history, we can expect a similar outcome in Honduras.
Simulacra Descending a Staircase
In these dark and brooding times it is Kafkaesque tragicomedy that strikes the right note of collective mirth. The Iranian government recently staged an anniversary celebration of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's momentous return from exile in France. The cardboard reenactment of his arrival has been the subject of effusive internet mockery since photos from the state-affiliated
Objets Trouvés or I like Looking in New York
A mystic lost his head on the Lower East Side.
The Invented Persians
The Palestine/Israel and U.S. narratives on Palestinians coincided in a haphazard way this month. While the popular resistance committee in the village of Nabi Saleh mourned the killing of Mustafa Tamimi, which it named its first martyr, an American presidential candidate resurrected the British Mandate-era mythos about the ‘invented’ Palestinian people.
Multitudes, Horizontal Spontaneities, Whatever
It is difficult to come by a news item about South America and the economy that doesn’t include the phrase ‘Brazil rising’ in it.
Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
(“Circle of Truth Hovering over The USA” by The London Police) On police cooperation with the status quo and occupiers’ cooperation with the police One of the most…