Archive for the ‘ culture ’ Category
So, I’ve been neglecting this blog of late, as I’ve been devoting my internet energies to maintaining another blog related to a course I’ve been taking. I noticed that my recent post on critical animal studies was of some interest, and so I encourage those interested in such issues to check out the other blog, [ READ MORE ]
This is perhaps the least surprising resolution to a police investigation in recent memory: The officer, a seven-year veteran, recognized Mr. Clemmons “immediately,” Mr. Diaz said, and noticed that the suspect was trying to pull something from one of his pockets. He ordered Mr. Clemmons to put his hands up, but he refused and began to [ READ MORE ]
So in reading the English Mechanic for an upcoming assignment, sitting in the Thomas Fisher rare books library at U of T, I came across an entry on the telephone, and wanted to confirm its invention date. While perusing wiki, I noticed a funny link, and followed it, to find two intriguing things. [ READ MORE ]
What you think of as offensive is hilariously tame by the standards of the Internet. Your standards of decency are positively Victorian to the new generation of people who have grown up with and on the Internet. What am I talking about? If you’re like most average folks, you’ll say ‘fuck’ and ’shit’ from time to time. [ READ MORE ]
Just re-watching last night’s episode of Fringe, since my cable went on the fritz halfway through. Good episode, at least on par with last season’s stuff, and it seems like the ‘mythology’ or broader story arc of the show is shaping up in a very interesting way. Noticed something really interesting though: when Lance Reddick [ READ MORE ]
here’s a revision of the piece I wrote a while back on Foucault and the wire, worked up for publication in UBC’s film journal Cinephile. if you liked the old one, you’ll dig this. if you didn’t, i may have addressed your objections to it – or you might have come up with some new ones. [ READ MORE ]
Prof. Steven Shaviro posted on his blog a few days ago a brief meditation on Daniel Day-Lewis’ (now Oscar-winning) performance in There Will be Blood, responding to Salon’s rather scathing review of said performance. Quite a fascinating post really, and one which linked to and generated a number of very interesting comments. Definitely worth taking [ READ MORE ]
Ah, the humble cigarette. It’s Nature’s little way of exacting revenge on Europe for the whole smallpox-blanket thing in times of yore, a wondrous little abstract machine for killing off people with little interest in living. (And don’t get your hackles up already. I’ve had a family member die of lung cancer just like the [ READ MORE ]
Essentially Emily is a new blog by Emily Brill, the newly-thin ’socialite’ daughter of Steven Brill, the erstwhile founder of multiple defunct enterprises you’ve likely never heard of. Perhaps you remember his ‘media watchdog’ magazine, Brill’s Content, if you’ve got a maddening memory for the irrelevant like myself. Excited yet? I hope not. This should be [ READ MORE ]
I’ve been reading and enjoying a bit of Paul Feyerabend lately, so I was interested to hear that there was a recent controversy involving this anarchic thinker and our peculiar current pope Ratzinger, or Benedict, or whatever. How could this be? Well, it’s not difficult to see where the difficulty might arise. Although Feyerabend is [ READ MORE ]