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Literary Tantalus
thenewinquiry: The measured release of material has multiplied the way Beckett’s work can be interpreted, transforming the image of Beckett as a leading 20th century existentialist into a historically and culturally complex figure who actively resisted a stable interpretation of his work. What the estate has accomplished through its trickle of archival material is perpetual…
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It isn’t a hyperkinetic movie but, rather, one of a dazzling proliferation of precise moments organized around a point of stillness, and its speed depends on a quartet of notable recognitions. First, movie-and-video-steeped viewers are more perceptive than ever, more able than ever to extract salient narrative content from an image at a glance; second,…
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Morse admitted that there was no formal reason for that position. It was just a feeling. “We’re not saying that we’re measuring educational outcomes,” he explained. “We’re not saying we’re social scientists, or we’re subjecting our rankings to some peer-review process. We’re just saying we’ve made this judgment. We’re saying we’ve interviewed a lot of…
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How to create stunning mood boards with So.cl
fuselabs: Mood boards are a common tool used by visual designers and marketing teams to establish the look and feel or brand for a project. Typically this is done by searching through image archives and painstakingly building the collections in mosaics, and it involves numerous steps to collect, organize, and layout manually by hand. Read…
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The Ghost of Books: Part I
lareviewofbooks: SVEN BIRKERTS, GARY PHILLIPS, and JULIE CLINE Image © Lisa Jane Persky for Los Angeles Review of Books “The Ghost of Books: Past, Future, and Present” is an experiment not in terror and is not necessarily Dickensian. We’ve asked certain writers to respond to the three times (or tenses) in the subtitle, or simply…