Three’s Company, ABC by Evan Johnston I realize that there are a lot of confused and angry people out there complaining that this episode of Three’s Company, which I have retitled as Jack Man #3, is only eight minutes long with no sound. I want to open up by saying that this was a total…
Read Moreby Adam Staley Groves A close friend asked “does anyone actually pay attention to these debates?” Consoling, indeed. The forming consensus is that President Obama lost the first of three debates to Former Governor Romney. In fact, some polls indicate a wipe-out. Obama looked like he had ring rust, often looked down and flashed an…
Read MoreL-R: Nina Simone, Zoe Saldana by Nina Jablonski Hardly a week goes by that there isn’t a scandal about skin colour. Most recently it was the story about the casting of the relatively light-skinned actor, Zoe Saldana, to play the part of the late dark-skinned singer, Nina Simone. Bloggers agreed that Saldana was preferred by…
Read MoreCard from A Shufflebook, by Richard Hefter and Martin Stephen Moskof, 1970 by Zuzana Husárová and Nick Montfort Introduction The paper formulates the category “shuffle literature” to help reveal important qualities of certain intriguing works of fiction and poetry. We show how unusual formal and material aspects of these literary works interact with one another,…
Read MoreXX. here lies a man whose life frequently seemed as if its purpose were merely to exhibit to his closest family members the extravagant failures of his own character; a man who lay in bed in the early morning hours thinking to himself that maybe—were he to remain absolutely still for a few minutes longer—his…
Read MoreOccupy Wall Street poster From Observatory: As a supposedly antiquated form of media, the poster is regularly pronounced to be on its last legs as a means of communication and of marginal relevance now. I have written pieces myself saying much the same thing. No one doubts that posters used to be highly effective as both…
Read MoreAn entire nexus of the limits of reason and philosophy are set up here, namely that the critical philosophy not only defends thought from madness.
Read Moreby Kris Pint 1. Returning to Jung In Deleuze and Parnet’s Dialogues there is this marvellous quote from D.H. Lawrence about the purpose of literature: “To leave, to leave, to escape… to cross the horizon, enter into another life…”[1] It is a phrase that succinctly summarizes Deleuze’s own philosophical project, a philosophy of movement and…
Read MorePoster for Sofie Peeters’ documentary Femme de la rue by Markha Valenta When Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963, “the problem that has no name” was the problem of college-educated housewives sitting at home being bored to death. Today, the “problem that has no name” is more widespread, more alluring and more aggressive.…
Read MorePhotograph by Bettina Zuric by Henriëtte Louwerse When in 1996 Hafid Bouazza published his debut collection of short stories De voeten van Abdullah, it caused quite a stir.[1] Besides the obvious literary qualities of the collection, it was the author’s background that so excited its readers. Hafid Bouazza, born in Morocco, the son of one…
Read MoreLittle Christer, 1955 From The Smart Set: In this small but engaging show, Strömholm documents these women’s lives in public and private. He gives us intimate scenes from inside drab hotel rooms and claustrophobic bathrooms, where the women stare at the camera through their reflections in the mirror, a double image that underscores the residue of…
Read MoreMercat de la Boqueira, Barcelona. Photograph by Filipe Varela by Alexander J. Hahn Let’s start with a piece of fiction. The setting is the crowded Mercat de la Boqueira in Barcelona, by reputation one of the best fresh food markets in Europe. Scores of fruit vendors display varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries…
Read MoreNew York Stock Exchange. Photograph by Mario Tama/Getty Images by Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of…
Read Moreby Suzanne Ruta Picturing Algeria, by Pierre Bourdieu, forward by Craig Calhoun. Edited by Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli, Columbia University Press, 230 pp. Algeria, by Dirk Alvermann, Facsimile edition of a work first published in 1960. Steidl, Germany 2011 In 2004, just around the time the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, an exhibition of photographs…
Read MoreIng Phouséra by Jason Dittmer Ing Phouséra, or Séra, as he is known in artistic circles, is a French-Cambodian comics artist who evacuated Phnom Penh with his French mother in 1975. While the subject of his works range far and into other media, he came to my attention for his graphic novels about the Khmer…
Read MoreTV Static Abstract #8, Rick Doble by Nicholas Rombes 1. Throughout his career, but especially in writings from the 1950s gathered together as the essay “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema,” film critic André Bazin praised the potential of the cinematic image “not according to what it adds to reality but what of it…
Read Moreby Changwon Choi Written by Alex Chase and Tim Holland In Cinema 2, Deleuze posits Antonioni’s 1950 film—along with works by Visconti and Fellini—as exemplifying both the crisis of the action-image and the development of a direct time-image, what he calls “pure optical and sound situations” (5). In this scene, we find the two lovers…
Read MoreIn the mid-nineteenth century, California Indians were auctioned off for slave labor at the Downey Block in downtown Los Angeles. Drawing courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library by Wendy Cheng and Laura Barraclough Los Angeles is well known as a place anchored by Hollywood and home to celebrities, beach culture and endless sunshine. There…
Read MoreThe Laurenziberg, Prague From London Review of Books: I am guilty of an association of ideas; or rather: I am guilty – that’s a given, and in casting about for the source of my guilt I find I cannot prevent myself from linking one idea with another purely on the basis of their contiguity, in…
Read MorePiece originally published at Public Domain Review. A selection of the more inventive entries to a competition to design a new tower for London. The year previous, 1889, saw the hugely successful Eiffel Tower go up in the centre of Paris, and the good people of London, not to be outdone, decided to get one…
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