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Read More: Animating the Inanimate: The Future
I was hesitant to see Miranda July’s new film, The Future, because while I’m a fan of her earlier avant-garde art practice (and even a supporter and friend during this…
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Read More: Re-Organize Our Future?
The second section, Isolation/Connection, of PerpiTube, my show with Pato Hebert, has ended with an uplifting set of provocations from Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Center: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQEPw1x9E&w=425&h=349]…
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Read More: It’s a Mystery to Me: les clesThe third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7TOUiQ7-Q&w=425&h=349] Unexpected in two senses. First, I had…
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Read More: Form is Feeling: Remembering AIDSIn the past few days, I’ve seen two powerful film screenings featuring works that historicize AIDS in the 1980s: We Were Here (“the first documentary to take a deep and…
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Read More: The Putative Black Lesbian Speaks
As it is wont to do, the blogisphere will tackle, pin-down, chew-up, devour, and spit out the story of the phony “lesbian blogger Amina” and her pseudo-lesbian editor, “Paula Brooks.”…
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Read More: Men Shooting Films in Caves
It’s like reality TV for famous filmmakers: wacky games with ridiculous rules bring out the real man. In this episode, our intrepid directors don’t have to eat maggots but they…
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Read More: Diverse Publics and their (Un)Necessary Safe SpacesOn Friday I was honored to participate in a day long symposium at the Getty, Questioning the Standard, an event anticipating Pacific Standard Time, their impending year-long, city-wide opus on…
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Read More: Teaching, Intellectuals, the Left, Families and Activism, with Toby MillerThe second pod of my interview with Toby Miller for his CulturalStudies podcast was just cast. This one ended up being pretty personal: about my family of lefty intellectuals, like…
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Read More: Distraction Span: Disjointed Rapidfire Thought Requested
My friend Brian Goldfarb and I just released Distraction Span: Technologies of Productive Disruption at MediaCommons. “With this cluster of The New Everyday we initiate a conversation about social media…
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Read More: We Walked OutAbout an hour into my course on Feminist Spaces Online a student informed us that an absent class member had just texted her suggesting that we should leave class and…