Setting-off a deliciously entertaining exchange between the infinitely pompous Alain de Botton and Nina of Infinite ThØught, in February 18 post, she wrote, with inspiration, before being forced to remove (and eventually re-publish) her post:
Occasionally I have to get people to review books like this. Now I don’t know about you, but I find the [...]
Thanks to a post by Chris Cagle of Category D, we now know we have one week left to submit a paper proposal for the Quotation, Sampling, and Appropriation in Audiovisual Production panel, which will “address film and other media’s formal strategies of quotation, appropriation, sampling, version, remixing, etc. as methods of critique.”
250-word proposals by [...]
In a post praising Flicker Alley’s continual release of otherwise unavailable films, Kristin Thompson reminds us that Abel Gance’s 1922 epic, La roue, long overdue on DVD, was released last year. Though Gance is most well-known for his Napoleon, La roue is often thought of as his greatest picture.
A case in point is the new [...]
In an article entitled “Looking Differently at ADHD,” Julie Hail Flory reframes so-called attention deficit in terms of “memory retrieval”, or the “failure of active maintenance.”
It happens to us all – you walk to the refrigerator, open the door, then stand there, unable to remember why you went to the kitchen in the first place.
You [...]
A round of articles on the many hurdles facing women who breast feed and/or pump breast milk shows just how inconvenient this activity is in a world designed, so it would seem, with only men in mind. Sara J. Welch notes in a recent New York Times article:
“Several working mothers spoke of looking for [...]
David Swensen and Michael Schmidt make the case for turning newspapers into non-profits funded by a university-styled endowment. But is it necessary to characterize print news as what’s saving us from the dirty internet, that “‘cesspool’ of false information”? The New York Times is, after all, by all international standards one of the least credible [...]
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But is the timeline right? Did human evolution really stop? If not, our sense of who we are — and how we got this way — may be radically altered. Messrs. Cochran and Harpending, both scientists themselves, dismiss the standard view. Far from ending, they say, evolution has accelerated since [...]
Though the two lectures comprising Pierre Bourdieu’s short work On Television (1996) more or less exclusively focus on news programming, and predate the blogosphere, if not the internet — which is important to the extent that so much of what he has to say here concerns ownership of the means of information production, — the [...]
In a recent World Picture article entitled “The Obviousness of Cinema,” Rosalind Galt, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex and author of The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map (Columbia UP, 2006), takes us on a thoughtful, encyclopedic tour of the [...]
If wondering what it’s like to be a bat, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously did in a 1974 essay, no longer sates our appetite for the futile, designing simulations for them might. For more than thirty years now, as chronicled in Richard D’Eath’s extensive review, “Can video images imitate real stimuli in animal behaviour [...]
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