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Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
On Optimism and Despair _ Zadie Smith _ The New York Review of Books.pdf
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
The cases of two scholars, Rebecca Tuvel and Bruce Gilley, immediately come to mind. Tuvel wrote a paper for the feminist philosophy giant Hypatia, exploring parallels between transracial and transgender identities and advocating transracial identity statuses. However, for Theory, race and gender are profoundly different. To claim transgender
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
does compassion contradict objectivity in journalism? often, it has been argued that yes, compassion might impair the ability to report from an objective viewpoint. i disagree; i think compassion is a trait that allows us to emphasize with others and ourselves, thus allowing us to deeply understand different viewpoints and perspectives. only by
... See moreSince Brecht, this discomfort with proximity has assumed a specifically political dimension within ideological criticism: the naive spectator, drawn too close to the text emotionally, loses the ability to resist
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Pero nadie pregunta cómo sigue tu mamá… Sobre identidad y política en el arte contemporáneo. •
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Marker is working at a moment when, in France and elsewhere, there is a growing sense of the deadening effects of a standardized and image-saturated culture.