The critical establishment’s dogmatic popism eliminates any consideration of the philosophy surrounding the creative and commercial genesis of music and…
Maybe We Just Need Better Stories
At first when I read this in Tech Crunch, I was depressed: The appeal of Instagram is, for lack of…
Why Blockbusters Don’t Exist
The problem with giving your audience what they want is that they don’t know what they want. vs. vs. (“Freebird!”)…
A Poetics of Vandalism
…if the reader’s expression of his freedom through the text is tolerated among intellectuals (clercs) (only someone like Barthes can…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 5: Miscellaneous Uncollected
Greetings once again! Since we’re doing this, we may as well be thorough. There are a bunch of Smiths songs…
Daybreak, Brian Ralph (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011)
Republished late last year as a single-volume graphic novel, Daybreak was originally released in three parts between ’06 and ’08,…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, Part 4: “Hatful of Hollow”
Late last year, we were looking at the lesser-listened-to Smiths albums—The Smiths, Meat Is Murder, and Strangeways, Here We Come—assembling…
Guest Post: Carrie Hunter–J/J Hastain and the Biomimetic Unicorn
In a womb-shaped wormhole, j/j hastain examines postmodernities of gender through the central iconography of the unicorn. If a wormhole…
Bressonmania
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the…