Malcolm McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange, Warner Bros., 1971 From Monthly Review: It was a half century ago, in 1963, that I first entered the world of commercial advertising. Only then did I personally grasp the nature and power of moving-image media. I realized it’s possible to create and project purposeful images into…
Read MorePolice stop FEMEN protestors in Kiev during the Euro 2012 cup final. Photograph by Dmitry Shakin From Eurozine: Any emergent social movement will faces obstacles, will proceed unevenly and with difficulty as it undermines people’s resistance toward cultural change. In Ukraine, the decades ahead will present ever greater challenges to the formation of a consensus…
Read MorePainters of sacred images in the Renaissance were constrained by the requirements of their patrons, by tradition and by the requirements of the Church…
Read MoreIn order for anything at all to begin, something else first must have ended…
Read MoreThis essay marks the ending of the lavish storehouse of riches known as Berfrois…
Read Moreeach era produces lovers who don’t know love can be parodied…
Read MoreThe exhibition abounds with tanuki, cat-demons, froglike humanoids and magic foxes…
Read MoreSome writers search all their lives for the perfect place to work…
Read MoreThe first to ever hold the office, the first eastern German, the first scientist…
Read MoreImages lie. Aromas understand. Trust only the sliced onion’s stab to the eyeball…
Read MoreNowadays, the charm of a Little Switzerland is not a lofty, aesthetic ideal of Romanticism…
Read MoreNobody can deny that there are serious dangers in Alpine climbing…
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