The audience is immediately presented with this space is detached from civilization; there are only a handful of scenes that take place outside of the walls over the hotel. It’s within this controlled space that Kubrick sets his film....
The vast majority of Eadward Muybridge’s work was done in a special sunlit outdoor studio, where one of his favored subjects to show the human form in locomotion was the tennis player.
Not long ago, online surveillance and repression were interesting experiments. Now online activity is at the core of how these nation-states envision their futures.
The acts of dispossession that found the modern archive and establish the rules which make our histories count as plausible — or allow others to be dismissed as fictions.
Emily Cooke and Sarah Leonard of The New Inquiry join Elizabeth Gumport of n+1 for a discussion of Mary McCarthy and her vicious satire, The Oasis, which lampooned the literary…
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.