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Another Hydra that we all know is the menacing blood-soaked drug war fought by the feral heads of Mexico’s drug cartels. Those heads seem to multiply the more they are severed by Mexico’s embattled law enforcement and by the fiery internal struggles within the cartels themselves. Over decades of vicious warfare [Read More]
When Shaquille O’Neal first entered the NBA, way back in ’92, his reputation for aggressive hardwood domination and monstrous dunks preceded him from LSU. It seems that it is the same wherever he goes. Last Friday his debut as art curator through the Flag Art Foundation with the show Size Does Matter shows [Read More] I’m New Here is primarily spoken, sung, and told in the first-person–and when it’s delivered in third-person, it feels as if Scott-Heron is looking at himself from afar. Interludes catching Scott-Heron off-guard in candid moments help to paint a picture of raw personal confession; I couldn’t help but attributing the statements to his own life, the man behind the music. It’s a typical hermeneutic problem in art criticism, or more basically and profoundly, in the experience of art. How do we distinguish between an autobiographic or a confessional performative work? What difference might that diagnosis make in our experience and interpretations of the art? [Read More] Ezra Pound’s radical poetics have had claimants and followers as far ranging as Bunting to Ginsberg, and Zukofsky to Creeley and Olson. The experimental Pound has usually found a welcome abode among experimentalists. But his heirs are not entirely literary — and often not exactly clear about how they claim lineage to Pound, or why [Read More]
Giordano Filippo Bruno, that implacable figure, had vagabonded across the face of Europe before he was arrested, imprisoned, inquisitioned, and burned at the stake for multiple heresies against the doctrines of the Church. It took 8 years for the inquisitorial process to consummate, lengthy in comparison to the swifter martyrships of the devout. [Read More] Francesca Woodman was an entrancingly talented photographer who, at 22, made the decision to jump out the window of her New York studio. Her death has always been a mystery to me–most have attributed it to inconsolable depression over a break up, but this always seemed like such a wayward excuse–a way for adults to rationalize [Read More] “Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there’s twice as much of [Read More] The prodigious events which surrounded the germination, composition, and performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du Temps are known to us for all time – so long as the time we understand by that term lasts in the normative function– thanks to the testimony of Messiaen himself, and to the books available on [Read More] The Tiger’s Eye was a magazine that existed for nine issues in the late 1940s. Attempting to break the conventional model of the common arts/culture little magazine which the founders of Tiger’s Eye believed stultified the arts by publishing some poems, some stories, some critique, and sometimes some art, without replicating the experience of artistic production, they designed a magazine that worked by linkages, associations and groupings, which would occur in the reader’s mind, in order to mimic, if not, actually reproduce, the creative process. [Read More] How have we “framed” history up until now? Where did we start and where do we perceive its end? Mike said an interesting thing to me: he said that the current culture of apocalypse is only due to the West’s awareness of its declining status on the world stage. We think, well, if the sun is setting in the West, it must be setting everywhere, [Read More] |
 How Does The Net Affect our Brains? Nicholas Carr and A Glimpse into the DebateIn 2008, Nicholas Carr wrote an influential essay in the Atlantic titled “ Is Google Making us Stupid” ? Since that essay’s publication the use of the Internet and its effect on our brains has become a highly divisive topic which has produced a large spat of journalistic and academic articles in its wake. [Read More]  Sanullim: Mountain Echo PsychSanullim is something of an anomaly in rock history. At a time when vintage rock was dying and new cultural tropes were diversifying the palette of pop music, Sanullim appeared on the margin in a country whose pop music landscape, heavily censored by the authoritarian bureaus of Park Chung-Hee, mainly consisted of traditional trot ballads and dance-pop music. Sanullim’s heavy bass lines, thunderous drums, chromatic fuzz guitar-work, and psych-image lyrics were a revival shock in a system which had gone dormant since the early 60s scene singlehandedly engendered by Korean rock godfather Shin Jung-Hyeon. [Read More]  We are Freak (Rap)By Adri Wong The abstraction of hiphop – sonically & visually – is a progression other commentators have discussed in relation to instrumental/beats artists like Flying Lotus and the unparalleled Dilla. But what of the lyrical persona in the abstract world? Which is to say, in this constantly expanding kaleidoscope universe, what happens to the MC? [Read More]  ‘The Housemaid’ – A Comparison of Two Korean FilmsIf Martin Scorsese had stopped making films after the 90s, he’d still prove an invaluable part of cinema history on the basis of his current film preservation efforts. Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, which works to “help developing countries preserve their cinematic treasures,” has gone a long way in preserving and promoting little seen, almost lost films from a wide range of countries. [Read More]  Film Review: The Secret in their Eyes (El Secreto de sus Ojos) dir. by Juan Jose CampanellaThe Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film last year was bestowed onto an Argentine mystery romance; a film that intermixes the pathos of unspoken love and the torture chamber of memory, and parallels these alongside the shadowy contours of law and corrupt politics. As the film frames all these disparate elements within a novelist’s remembrance of a rape and murder investigation that he was involved in as a young attorney in the court halls of Buenos Aires in the early 1970s, it continuously draws analogies to the mercenary political machinations of a dictatorial Argentina. This brilliantly scripted and acted film was written and directed by Juan Jose Campanella, a director who has now catapulted himself onto the international film scene with this minor masterpiece. [Read More]    |
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