Rosalind, thank you for getting this week off to such a strong start, this is truly a fascinating moment in this film. What struck me here was the struggle the Bangladeshi workers are enduring to secure this piece material comfort. Like Tsai's use of ...
Soumitra this is a really fascinating suggestion. I'm intrigued by your point that this audio recording is an anticipation of the digital processes we encounter so regularly today. In thinking about the material of the virtual, as I have myself, I� ...
Thank you for your reply Sheila, I'm glad you were able to find the potential of theorizing endurance as fascinating as I do. I really appreciate your suggestion concerning Baudrillard here. I have read America but it has been so long ago I had compl ...
Hilary, thank you for your post on what I think is an often neglected film. Your take on an embodied virtual subject, as Cronenberg conceives it, rightly takes on the limitations and shortcomings of the POV subject so many games today offer. For me, the g ...
Sheila, thank you for your intriguing post. I'm most interested in the examples you offer, specifically Melancholia, and am curious if you would extend your argument to the disaster genre at large, or only a segment of it, such as the art film. I ask ...
Brian, I think Serene Velocity is a particularly interesting choice largely for the reason that prompts you to write it: place. Along with issues of selection and distribution, film and aesthetics, there is another texture that film demands: the restraint ...
What is interesting to me about Saraceno's Cloud Cities exhibition is its ability to pause, or arrest only when it is not being used. Saraceno makes the point that each small movement necessitates a movement of each connected (or networked) participa ...
Rob, I think we are competitors. But I'm not sure if Brian wants us simply to think of ourselves as competitors--after all, many view athletic programs as "the competition" within the university and that humanities must compete with athleti ...
Rob, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what, if anything, might be done about student athlete labor. I guess my question would be: is it labor? We so often construct it as such because there are others profiting from the game, but does that ...
Paul, this is a really interesting turn toward the political. Watching the MSU/ND clip I am reminded that so much of my own viewing experience of sports is stained by my desire to see my team triumph. In that moment I lose sight of how surprise can redef ...
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