Tue, May 22, 2012

The Perfect Art: Reality Television and Polygamy

Posted 5 months ago

Consider this: reality television is the perfected height of cinema. New forms of media depend on the introduction of one new technical element that is impossible to accommodate in an older form. When theater gave way to cinema, the one irreproducible element was editing, the technique that…

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Pornography & Superstition: A Genital Manifesto

Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Dennis Cooper re-published a series of “Ghost Stories” on his website to mark the passing of Halloween. The stories derive from some old photos he claims were given to him from a porn collector he reconnected with. Each set of black and white photographs, which feature only men, is accompanied…

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Occupy Wall Street and the War on Metonymy

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago

After a short period of time at Occupy Wall Street it becomes clear that Wall Street is not actually being occupied. A large group of people have moved into a park a few blocks away from it, where it seems their colorful tent city is, in fact, the thing being occupied–hemmed in by metal…

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