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Any positions that characterize people as bereft of agency, as passive automatons open to manipulation or behavioral management, are usually deemed reductive or irresponsible.

Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

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Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade

The movie is thoroughly a product of Seventies sensibility: the integrity of things as they already stand, the presentation of a text as a concrete object, and out-front admission of the means of production.

Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication

warping cultural creators’ intentions for what they put out into the feed, changing their relationship to their own work as well.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

another type of fan has been replaced by an audience member who might be more upset by bad popcorn than a bad film.

Mukesh Manjunath • The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema

While writing would allow far more knowledge to be preserved and accessed, it would also relieve individuals of the burden of sustaining collective memory themselves. Like writing and print, our use of digital media ordinarily generates an archive (as well as a trail of data, often invisible to users but of great value to others). But although digi... See more

L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City

It is the façade that triggers the problem.

John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them

none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9

Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

Over the course of the film, McClane blows up whole sections of the building; he stops elevators between floors; and he otherwise explores the internal spaces of Nakatomi Plaza in acts of virtuoso navigation that were neither imagined nor physically planned for by the architects.

His is an infrastructure of nearly uninhibited movement within the ma... See more