Book Forum: Guerrilla Marketing
In the wake of Colombia's peace process after the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere, somewhere in that "liminal space that is not quite war nor peace"... More
Inverting a Sense of Home: Review of Evicted Exhibition
The glass doors to the Evicted exhibition at the National Building Museum open to a wall of eviction notices. The pink sheets of paper inform tenants that they ... More
Refusal and Resurgence: A Review of Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Jeremy Dutcher’s captivating Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (2018), winner of Canada’s prestigious Polaris Music Prize as well as a Juno Award, is the debut album o... More
Book Forum: The Blind Man
And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, And if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.–Maurice Blanchot Robert Desja... More
(De)compositions: A Review of Anthropocene
Our entrance into Anthropocene was initiated by a loud noise of what we imagined to be a bomb exploding. Repeated on a loop from a concealed source, this sonic ... More
Streaming Closeness: A Review of Present.Perfect
Since its inception in 2005, the live-streaming industry has grown into a $5 billion enterprise. Today, hundreds of thousands of Chinese anchors (主播; zhu bo) ar... More
Review: I’ve got a little problem
I’ve got a little problem (2018) Directed by Ren Hang Documentary film, 44 min. * * *... More
Letting Stories Speak: A Review of Dead Souls
Dead Souls (2018) begins with this still. It is all the context that the documentarist, Wang Bing, provides for the viewer. Then, for almost eight hours, surv... More
Book Forum: Violence’s Fabled Experiment
Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers’s Violence’s Fabled Experiment (2018) is a superb account of the relationship between images, violence, and history. It is al... More
Storying Otherwise. A Review of Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival
“We need other kinds of stories,” Donna Haraway implores as she faces the camera. “Storying otherwise,” in Haraway’s expression, is an apt characterization of... More
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