Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...of hate. It bears an enormous amount in common with Farocki’s films, albeit shot through with a bitter jag of melancholy. There’s a moment in it where Anders recounts a...
The Color and the Sound
...complicated color pieces, a painting antidote that reveals some of the preternaturally darker corners of the most cheerful demeanor, like a biofeedback scan. “It can drive one a bit crazy,”...
The Lossless Self
...genres, listeners were asked to select the highest quality version of each song from among three of the same recording encoded at different bit rates. How I yearned to ace...
This Sex Which Is Not Two
...you can begin to see what the components of it are. A dynamic systems approach always has to be developmental and longitudinal. A cross-sectional bit of data is just the...
Love Craft
...My Colors,” and whether our dial-up romance, which had blossomed so beautifully in an AOL chat room, would wither despite his gift of one perfectly sequenced bit of sonic sentiment....
Skin Feeling
...being skin. “I put quite a bit of study into the horn,” said Bird. How do you study that way? I keep coming back to the hotel, to the couple...
Future Games
...to Fallout, the gaming industry is currently obsessed with apocalypse. Long a staple of TV and cinema screens, the zombie has become even more prominent on PlayStations and computers. Added...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...that American television birthed, is there any as famous as this? None comes to mind. Berkley splays open Jessie’s anxieties in this scene; it’s a bit of committed, earnest acting...
Built to Last
...economy and they do have a slight sense of loose change within the economy, possibly, that they might well have a bit more money to spread around, and they might...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...here: You, too, can rent "Sex-Based Differences in Compliment Behavior," Language in Society, 1990, pp. 201-224, for 24 hours! With that in mind, it’s easy to see why women might...
The Year of Risk
...coast of some Atlantis beneath we ignore it And keep moving on the icy streets of our Little town. “Be careful,” you say, “That puddle has completely frozen. Take care...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...their classification as either parasite or as guest. The first prediction that comes up on a google search for “insect” is “insecticide.” It’s an indication that on the most quotidian...
Tender Potatoes
...because Akerman’s films offer an insight into the loneliness and quiet beauty that comes from physical isolation in a time when society increasingly tends to replace the fleshy body with...
Doing it Wrong
...not happen. Which helped feed my fear when faced with my earliest intimate situations which led that first boy to report on my inadequacy to his friends. Which fed my...
#mybodymyhome (ii)
...my lips. Touch every part of my being with your fingertips. Explore my soul and take my breath away. With your tenderness possess my heart. Feed me with love....
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.