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Alden Burke • How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole
As he films Seattle, transforming it into "Rain City," Rudolph is faced with the same decision: is he a realist or an expressionist, inventing the world or recording it? The moral and the aesthetic questions merge, as they must on the higher levels of art.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Optimism in particular opens onto differences that are not merely the other side of power's insidious grasp.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Continuously challenging.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Television was only the first of a category of apparatuses with which we are currently surrounded that are most often used out of powerful habitual patterning involving a diffuse attentiveness and a semi-automatism. In this sense, they are part of larger strategies of power in which the aim is not mass-deception, but rather states of neutralization
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capacity to choose, act, and create,
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
The historian David Edgerton, in his book The Shock of the Old, describes the lines along which much contemporary popular thinking about technology tends to run. Obsessions with the technological standouts of the twentieth century—flight, nuclear power, the birth control pill, the internet—are shaped by a myopic and linear view of history, one pred
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