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August 28 2010, 3:56am | Comments
Link The Age of Semi-Post-Modernism
It seems to me part of the problem is that the term "postmodernism" was always so muddy and abstract. To different people, it meant (at least) two different things. First…

August 16 2010, 2:56am | Comments
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July 19 2010, 2:53am | Comments
Link Analogue Inception
The structure of the film is that of a heist movie, but if the film were to be slotted into a genre, that genre would have to be science fiction.…

July 18 2010, 6:07am | Comments
Link Essay: Technology changes how art is created and…
It used to be so simple. A book had an author; a film, a screenwriter and director; a piece of music, a composer and performer; a painting or sculpture, an…

July 18 2010, 5:20am | Comments
Wikipedia Thing - Wikipedia Thing may refer to: In philosophy: * An object (philosophy), being, or entity * Thing-in-itself (or noumenon), the reality that underlies perceptions, a term coined by Immanuel Kant…

July 16 2010, 3:30am | Comments
Link Ten movies that never should have been made—and…
Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds,…

June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Link 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished
Thousands of movies are made every year, and have been almost all the way back to when we first figured out how to make them. We love the theater experience…

June 10 2010, 9:07am | Comments
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May 6 2010, 10:56am | Comments
Link Video games can never be art
Having once made the statement above, I have declined all opportunities to enlarge upon it or defend it. That seemed to be a fool's errand, especially given the volume of…

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Link Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s…

March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments
Link Chtodelat? / What is to be done?
Chto delat? / What is to be done? was founded in early 2003 in Petersburg by a workgroup of artists, critics, philosophers, and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod…

March 9 2010, 11:10am | Comments
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February 23 2010, 12:21pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 10:25pm | Comments
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February 10 2010, 1:38pm | Comments
Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments
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Link When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like…
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the…

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Link GOOD COPY BAD COPY
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments
Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man
Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

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