May 2013
9 posts
In Defense of Distraction →
Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama
April 2013
3 posts
The bombing of al-Bara →
Cruel and unusual punishment: the shame of three... →
March 2013
6 posts
Hear three rare Arthur Russell productions →
Algorithmic rape jokes in the library of Babel →
February 2013
10 posts
delusions of cinema: 30 Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker... →
missvengeance:
1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:
“Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless.”
2. Ingmar Bergman on Michelangelo Antonioni:
“Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.”
3. Ingmar Berman on...
A user's guide to Artspeak →
Will Self reads 'On Exactitude in Science' by... →
January 2013
5 posts
WatchFirst Base, thanks Gizem!
Britain's secret archive of decolonisation →
December 2012
2 posts
Utopian for beginners: An amateur linguist loses... →
November 2012
10 posts
Turkey's anti-evolutionist showgirls →
WatchDryden Goodwin: Poised
October 2012
6 posts
Scathing early reviews of classic novels →
