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newyorker: Richard Brody on What to See This Weekend: Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” Twice What makes the film thrillingly different—in content and in affect, in emotional energy and in visual imagination—is its metaphysical and religious element. There’s an expressly transcendent theme in “Moonrise Kingdom” that raises the tender and joyous story of young lovers on…
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Ultraist movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ultraist movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia underpaidgenius: underpaidgenius: In a manifesto published by Nosotros magazine (Buenos Aires, 1922), [Jorge Luis] Borges summarized Ultraist goals thus: Reduction of the lyric element to its primordial element, metaphor Deletion of useless middle sentences, linking particles and adjectives. Avoidance of ornamental artifacts, confessionalism, circumstantiation, preaching and farfetched nebulosity.…
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xtianw: How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later And—and I say this as a professional fiction writer—the producers, scriptwriters, and directors who create these video/audio worlds do not know how much of their content is true. In other words, they are victims of their own product, along with us. Speaking…
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“you’re not going to get tenure from it or anything, but”
In an interesting move, my institution now has a line item in our annual reports for “professional/academic blog contributions”. There remains a conservative hierarchy of valuation, though. karaj: today i had a really ecstatic discussion about tumblr with one of my favorite professors. we were talking about feminism and the theoretical really, really for real…
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Nokia Releases A Font Designed To Work In Any Language
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“hire me! even for free!”
karaj: cocothinkshefancy: Fair Pay For All Work: Why Unpaid Internships are a Feminist Concern It’s that time of year—across campus, students are checking email and voicemail messages in anticipation of what seems like the golden ticket to success: a chance to commit three months of summer to a low- or unpaid desk job. As we…
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The founding act of the barbarian age (Le Devoir)
towerofsleep: translatingtheprintempserable: Gordon Lefebvre, retired instructor; Éric Martin, professor of philosophy at Collège Édouard-Montpetit 23 May 2012 French text:http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/350622/l-acte-fondateur-de-l-age-barbare For the first time, we are taking pen in hand in Quebec with the fear that this could bring reprisals against us. Despite that, there are things that must be said and written when significant crises burst out that…