I am writing a book with Rauan Klassnik. It’s 22 stories about Taylor Swift. It’s called Foxconn Suicide. However, for every mention of tea, he adds a reference to coffee. For every meal of fish and chips, a character has to order a hot dog. I’m beginning to doubt that Rauan’s even British. It’s a-time to put him to the test.
Read MoreThe different tools used to capture the frame and the wild variety in terms of image quality, which is the way films are remembered anyway, not always as pristine HD, but sometimes smudged and tangled up with our variances of mood. In The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes wrote that “the text chooses me, by a whole disposition of invisible screens, selective baffles.”
Read MoreWittgenstein certainly regarded himself as a philosopher, and certainly believed in the fundamental truth of what he was saying. So it would be a misleading oversimplification to maintain that he was “against philosophy” or against “the possibility of philosophical truth”.
Read MoreDetail of Partial Truth, Bruce Nauman, 1997 by Bobbi Lurie send me your comments against a piece i didn’t write and i’ll write the piece according to your comments #callforsubmissions * Lois McEwan @LoisMcEwan 6m @BobbiLurie so if truth makes you suicidal, what lies make you want to live? #callforsubmissions Lois McEwan @LoisMcEwan 15m @BobbiLurie…
Read Moreby Bobbi Lurie Dear Russell Bennetts, editor of Berfrois. After seeing the god-awful Season Six finale of Mad Men, I have decided to throw away my television set. Here is a tweet I posted immediately after watching it: Bobbi Lurie @BobbiLurie n-n-n-nnooooooooo …. not the “redemption” thing ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ no.…
Read MoreThe communist revolution Karl Marx was expecting did not happen, either in 1858 or at any other point in his lifetime…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts Melissa Benn is a British journalist and writer. She has written for The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Marxism Today and many other publications. Her most recent book is School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education. Berfrois Is the comprehensive dream over? Benn Well yes and no. I think the easy…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts Carrie Pitzulo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of West Georgia. Her current book, Bachelors and Bunnies: The Sexual Politics of Playboy provides a social history of the magazine. Berfrois How radical was Playboy for postwar America? Pitzulo I’m not sure I would use the…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts David Mikics is a professor at the University of Houston and writes on Renaissance literature, twentieth century poetry and fiction, continental philosophy, and literary theory. His published works are on ideas which range from pathos and subjectivity in Spenser and Milton to individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche. His current book, Who Was Jacques Derrida? provides a summary…
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts Simon Ferrari is a doctoral student in digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He recently co-authored Newsgames: Journalism at Play with Ian Bogost and Bobby Schweizer. Simon blogs about gaming at Chungking Expresso. Berfrois What are Newsgames? Are they closer in nature to journalism or video games? Ferrari …
Read Moreby Russell Bennetts Nick Salvato is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cornell University. His first book, Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance will be published by Yale University Press at the end of November. Currently Nick is working on a second book, tentatively entitled Performing Waste Management: A Century of Trash Aesthetics. Berfrois What…
Read MoreThe first thing to be said is that to define Modernism in any way at all is to take a stand. In that it is like Romanticism. You cannot write a ‘history of Romanticism’ or of Modernism, because you cannot stand above it on some neutral vantage-point.
Read MoreI don’t listen for you now, your crow step, / so eager to say my own piece. How does it / start. The ants came to tear my house down.
Read MoreThanks to Instagram and all its metastasized relations, nowhere is so far off the beaten path we can’t experience it visually…
Read MoreI’ll begin at the beginning of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) instigated adventure. Today we had to wake up at the crack of dawn to catch our 10-hour flight to Seattle.
Read MoreIn march 2017, the New York City–based editors and writers of The Atlantic moved to a WeWork office in Brooklyn. I remember our first morning vividly…
Read MoreWells was onto something. The Victorians had already been thinking about the mathematical qualities of extra dimensions, but with the discoveries of Einstein.
Read MoreVia From London Review of Books: Asked for his response to those critics who saw in The Wolf of Wall Street an undiluted celebration of the bad life – drugs, sex, money, jewels, a very large yacht and expensive suits – Leonardo DiCaprio said: ‘If they don’t get the irony of it, sorry.’ He was…
Read MoreFrom a map of Epping Forest, c.1876 From 3:AM: The structure had called my attention on several occasions. On walks through the Snaresbrook suburb in which it sat I would often peer through the locked gates and contemplate its use and history. It was not, as one local account had suggested, a disused cattle shed,…
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