Word Virus: notes on post-literacy and crowd control
Mass control is easier in a moment when we are splintered into ever-smaller media niches, cobbling together information from more or less authoritative sources and forms.
Between Two Worlds: in conversation with Emna Mâaref
“The album is reflecting how much I’m not there and not here either,” says Mâaref, who speaks about her latest recording of solo Oud compositions.
Be True to Your School
Preserving culture, something that we unanimously accept and unquestionably defend, is in fact impossible. The impetus to preserve culture is, like any executive impulse, inevitably misdirected.
Luxury Communism
It’s called a ‘staycation’ — when you can’t quite afford a flight to some tropical destination, but you can afford a few nights of hospitality in a place that isn’t your crappy apartment. It might even be just down the street from your crappy apartment.
Down With Love
There is no shame in sluttiness — nor should there be. Maybe, and this may be a radical suggestion, hanging out with someone of the opposite sex without the expectation of sex can go some way to bridging the perilous gender divide.
Day For Night: in conversation with Jennifer Alleyn
“It’s true that cinema is most powerful when time becomes alive again,” says the filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. “It is something that you retrieve from the terrible bulldozer of time.”
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