Roger Almendarez
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Post-Truth Was Inevitable
Thank you for your post! I enjoyed your framing of "post truth" as "the cultural logic of late racism," and I would venture further that this cultural logic extends beyond racism to various forms of oppression. Although your post focus ... -
Re: Border Futures
Desertpunk at the Border
Thank you for your post and curation of this week's topic. This looks like a great comic. I think you are right to point to Sleep Dealer as also engaging in this discussion of border life from the perspective of the unenfranchised. Sleep Dealer is in ... -
Closed Source Programming as way of SPURRING creativity?
Thank you for your contribution this week. I found your exploration of the ways that in-house software development has led to the growth of popular CGI companies like Pixar particularly fascinating. As you mentioned early on in the article, Pixar’s “Rende ... -
Hip Hop Commodified
Thank you for your piece. I apreciated your recognition of how these films appear starkly different from current mainstream perceptions of hip hop. I think you begin the week well by asking both 'how' and 'why' representations of hip h ... -
Narrative vs. Universalism
Thank you for this very informative article. I was quite taken by this clip, and by your observation that the show seems to pose (ethnic) narratives against an essentialized notion of food. I think you are very right to point to the ways in which the cont ... -
Ring as Signifier
Thank you very much for this great post! I completely agree with your insight that this show provides alternative definitions of "wife," or at the very least challenges its exclusivity. I was most taken by your locating of the ring as a signifie ... -
Reality, Admit One: Reading Performance in Babel
The 2006 film Babel appears as an interesting intersection, bringing into dialogue American, Mexican, Japanese, and Moroccan cultures while exploring cinema’s ability to transmit the pro-filmic. Babel places the actors in the film within a network of ver ...