The Cochlear Implant at the End of the World
Staging disability in an apocalyptic future, the film A Quiet Place insists that we think beyond a logic of functionality if we want to survive environmental crisis
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 1
...bringing new matter of concern into the frame of the car’s window, new blades of grass, another portion of cloud, three crickets, a fourth missing a third of a leg....
Sunday Reading
...any variation on "Yeah, the law's great! Just not when it targets me." Northrup Frye From Passive to Active Spectacle: Afterimages of the LA Riots" -- in commemoration of the...
Art of the Interview: Harun Farocki
...the cameras begin to offer possibilities for a new television, for all the coming jobs in media. Our film shows a scene with about twenty people who have simply pointed...
Sunday Reading
...rights movement How to update an iconic transit map Shailja Patel: cannot give my soul simply for exposure: Zanele Muholi, Prince Claus Awardee, on her work why is Kofi Annan...
Double oral is gay
...To Me, You Are Simply Words on Paper, 2000; In Bed with Boca Grande, Boca Pointe, Boca Raton, and Pembroke Pines, 2010; Stereohell, 2009; Stereohell Illustrated, 2009; Queries & Records,...
Sunday Reading
...felt like he was backed into a corner, felt like he had no choice but to jump." Tamerlane in Damascus: "Al-Ghuzuli’s elegy was not simply an abject cry of longing...
Three Little Books
...thing in an insomniac burst at about 3 a.m. last night, and though I’m not sure my weary brain did adequate justice to it, it did make me really eager...
The Future Bubble
...facilities to produce something, which is then offered for sale. The idea is to charge more than the cost of the labor, materials, and machinery, returning a profit to the...
One or Many Directions
What underpins the anxiety of a future world without Holocaust survivors?
Cops 2
...of police activity, peddling a “Dropbox for cops” that stores bureaucratic violence in the cloud. New approaches of predictive policing also recast old biases as innovative technology, as artist and...
Notes toward a reconceptualization of Boney M.'s "Daddy Cool"
...serves to invalidate the status of that belief and, in turn, cloud the hegemony of the law and the primacy of the phallic signifier with doubt. Her belief alone sustains...
Futures
...that the cloud holds for our pasts, bringing her experiences as an archivist to bear on the necessary absences of any internet archive. As more and more of our lives...
Occupy A Bank
...safety behind a cloud of pepper spray. Wednesday night at Wall Street, the NYPD insisted on living up to its reputation by conjuring violent conflict out of peaceful thin air....
A film in the catacinema
...well from the house-fed fire piping out through small vents and all combined to hotbox the cinema, getting up and curled in the lungs of the audience it clouded out...
Under the Rainbow
...has substantially changed the contours of sexuality, lifting the cloud of fear, piercing the stigma that lingered since the initial outbreak of the pandemic, and offering new possibilities for intimacy....