Commoditized Visibility: Coca-Cola, The World Cup, and the People politics of visibility Fùtbol! Reflections on the World Cup Coca-Cola branding Curator's Note A man rides in a small boat over the calm waters of the Amazon at dawn; a young woman in h ...
Love's Paradox Western Once Upon a Time in the West Nancy love Hate Curator's Note For Jean-Luc Nancy, love’s meaning is to be found entirely in the act of its utterance. To define the term further, to elucidate the qualities that one loves or d ...
Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
INTO THE BADLANDS: The Future of Chinese Martial Arts Cinema on American TV? Martial Arts Movies Into the Badlands Chinese opera AMC Curator's Note Chinese martial arts cinema owes a debt to the Chinese opera aesthetic where minimalist sets, characte ...
The Winning Side?: Agent Harris and the FBI on HBO’s The Sopranos narrative ambiguity The Sopranos. HBO Paul Levinson closure Curator's Note While the “closure junkies,” as Paul Levinson recently called them on his Infinite Regress blog, continue to ...
Viral Shock and Spectacle in the Policing of Borders: The Youtube Taser Death of Robert Dziekanski Curator's Note It may seem something of a strange choice to write an In Media Res commentary on a Youtube video that I personally find difficult to wat ...
