October 2011
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“I attended a panel on Kael at the New York Film Festival, where Kellow took...”
– Self-Styled Siren, “Lucking Out and Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark”
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“On August 2, at the very first meeting of what was to become Occupy Wall Street,...”
– David Graeber, “Enacting the Impossible: On Consensus Decision Making”
Also: “We may never be able to prove, through logic, that direct democracy, freedom and a society based on principles of human solidarity are possible. We can only demonstrate it through action.”
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My review of Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In →
I started writing for Spectrum Culture, and this is my first review for them, so I hope you’ll check it out. I think Almodóvar’s latest is really great, and it was a joy to think and write about this film. It’s a little disappointing that the film isn’t getting as much attention as it deserves, which is strange because this is one of his most “out-there” films...
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“Two related late-modern developments have eroded the viability of the...”
– Nicholas Rombes, from the roundtable discussion “The Post-Cinematic in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2”
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“The conventional wisdom is backwards. The black patient isn’t resistant...”
– The Last Psychiatrist, “Recent Trends in Stimulant Medication Use Among U.S. Children”
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“In his book on Francis Bacon, Deleuze writes that art “is not a matter of...”
– Steven Shaviro, from the roundtable discussion “The Post-Cinematic in Paranormal Activity and Paranormal Activity 2”
If art is about capturing forces, then the force cinema is most well-equipped to capture is time, which reminds me of Yausjiro Ozu’s There Was a Father, of which...
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