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Movies are an authoritarian medium. They vulnerabilize you and then dominate you.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“las películas, como los sueños, demandan la suspensión del juicio moral”,
Fernanda Solórzano • Misterios de la sala oscura: Ensayos sobre el cine y su tiempo (Spanish Edition)
crisis of taste,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The story, Kelley writes, is “the tale of what happens when working-class consumption of popular culture overrides the interests or concerns of popular culture workers . . . a story about the limits of solidarity . . . [set by] consumers whose own self-interest may actually clash with the demands of laboring artists.”
Worker’s Song | Franz Nicolay
And this lack of agency is undermining our connections to the culture that we love.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Late 20th century media was a universe of legible, cohesive objects—films, books, shows, albums, people—which audiences largely experienced as complete entities, not necessarily due to anyone’s preference but because this was the most practical way to read them. Today’s media is a tangle of streams, flows, and feeds that mingle promiscuously and of... See more
Drew Austin • Microdosing Life
A friend is not an enabler; love doesn’t always look like agreement.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The act of canceling R. Kelly may appear to have happened “all of a sudden” (fast culture), but the reason why he was canceled was a reflection of long-standing beliefs and ideologies (slow culture).
Marcus Collins • For the Culture
Dashiel Hammett’s The Glass Key poses different dilemmas when read as literature or as a popular detective story.