A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives
Self-bowdlerizing to avoid media constraints is not new: People have been doing it since at least the days of early newspaper comics, where sequences of graphic characters called grawlixes are still used instead of swear words to circumvent stringent syndication standards.
Adam Aleksic • Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
I think about this often in class, when students sometimes shut down in response to offensiveness in a work of art I see as having this kind of value. I find myself using two metaphors that are a little contradictory—or maybe not contradictory; maybe they’re two steps in a process. One is a metaphor of suspension. I don’t want to shut down my... See more
Garth Greenwell • Garth Greenwell: On a Sex Scene in Miranda July's All Fours—and…
But after the first few sessions, the Voight-Kampff neo-noir charm of the language experiment wore off and it became boring for bridge and expat alike. Gore played up. He started describing the images on screen via caricature – what a mermaid would say about a coffee shop, for example. It charmed me and I resented his ability to play drawing room
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