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Monthly Archives: May 2011
On Ranciere’s The Future of the Image
So I finished this a few minutes ago. I was, and am, frustrated about it–I wanted it to be much more than it ended up being. Ranciere begins the book with a discussion of the image. This is my first … Continue reading
Current Times 10
This is, of course, Current Times, a blog type in which I tell you about good things on the internet that you need to care about. You can click on the little Current Times category in order to see all … Continue reading
Posted in Current Times, Video Games
Tagged american psycho, dungeons and dragons, gold farming, graph, mieville, music, race, taibbi, video games, world of warcraft
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On More and Utopia
This is a paper that I wrote last semester, and I like the content enough to throw it up here. There’s enough going on that it should be worth reading. Undergraduate paper and whatnot ahoy. (Also, I haven’t felt like … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged academic, animal, more, utopia politics
Mieville on Lovecraft
I think Lovecraft is an astonishing visionary writer, and the source of his vision, in many cases, is race hatred. Now what do you do with that? Do you say, “I’m not going to read any of his stuff”? Do … Continue reading
Music Time 14
This is Burial. Listen to the track. There’s something haunting and beautiful about it–Warren Ellis says that this album is one of the first examples of hauntology in music (I don’t know about that.)
Posted in Music Time
Tagged burial, hauntology, music
Sam Neill, not Sam Neill
Photography became an art by placing its particular techniques in the service of this dual poetics, by making the face of anonymous people speak twice over–as silent witnesses of a condition inscribed directly on their features, their clothes, their life … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged photography, quote
