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June 22, 2012June 25, 2012 - Uncategorized

On Prometheus, Berlin’s O2 arena, Wings of Desire, androids, assemblages, agencements, corporate-imperial subjects and rebels, translator-traitors, and pain.

    Recently, walking along the Berlin Wall near the Oberbaumbrücke: there, at the opening of the bridge, you saw…

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June 12, 2012June 13, 2012 - Uncategorized

Trapped in the Echo Chamber

With Prometheus, this summer’s companion piece to the science fiction classic Alien, Ridley Scott has made the exact sort of…

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January 24, 2011December 31, 2012 - Uncategorized

How Many Cinemas Are There?

[Update 30 Jan 11: I’ve since written a follow-up to this post: “Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?”] “The…

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