Un(der)seen Cinema: Man with a Movie Camera
...the world, and in reflecting that revolutionary world, intensify it. The above version features the score written for the film by Michael Nyman. The version below features a score by...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.4.12
...intrigued the the notion of "supernormal stimulus"—that is, an artifically exaggerated version of a stimulus found in nature—because it seems to apply to both nature and nurture. That is, if...
Death Immortalized
...outside Darwin, outside game-theory, outside imperialism, outside race-hate. There are no pacifistic victories to be had in Liu’s version of Civilization, no Star Trek future of peace and mutual cooperation....
The Art of the Rebuttal: Katherine Dunn
...if you're being fouled, foul in return. Much of the commentary assumes that Tyson often commits fouls and that the bites are merely an extreme version of his usual unsportsmanlike...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...A shortened version of this paper was given at UC Irvine last week, with the great Tressie McMillan Cottom talking about MOOCs and for-profit education. You can see...
None of This Is Written By Me
...the fat, and bring it in for a landing. The backdrop, of course, is that California’s state budget process is broken: to give you the short version of the long...
The Oceanic Feeling
...the 2012 VMA awards, where he delivered an assonant, astringent version of “Thinkin Bout You,” the opening track on Channel Orange. He wonders if his beloved is willing to “think...
Convenience of Streaming Services
...may lead to a not entirely representative version of a work surviving.) The people who have a lot invested in their entertainment choices will supplement streaming services with ready alternatives....
Holing Up
...appears in all-black caps on Mary Anne’s back: “MIKE MULLIGAN / DIG / ANYTHING / ANY TIME / ANY PLACE.” Most likely, Mary Anne’s name is a slant version of...
Lies and Videotape
...that it is often more willfully deceptive, in its form if not its content, than fiction filmmaking. The skills required to sell the audience on a version of reality in...
Two Covers
...novel that revolves around dead brothers, fathers, and heroes. The American version, by contrast is a beautiful African landscape composed of colors and light and... no people: And yet, I...
Leaving on a Jet Plane
...aerial version of Grand Theft Auto. As Wired contributing editor Brendan Koerner details in The Skies Belong to Us, over an 11-year period from 1961 to 1972, 159 commercial airlines...
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...but that he combines that quality with a streak of good intentions, a kind of idealism and desire to do some version of the right thing. Cynics and fatalists wouldn’t...
Ramadan Diaries: Many Eids
..."like Islam, too seductive." Arberry: The rhetoric and rhythm of the Arabic of the Koran are so characteristic, so powerful, so highly emotive, than any version whatsoever is bound in...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...hierarchy, the best of humanity: social, empathic, curious. It’s mostly gestural, of course; there are no info-dumps to tell us that we are in a space-utopian version of real life....
Pacing Ourselves: Timothy Yanick Hunter and Katherine McKittrick in Conversation
Fresh off the success of his first solo exhibition in Toronto, artist Timothy Yanick Hunter speaks with author Katherine McKittrick on methodologies around art and archiving from within, and for, the black diaspora.