Tag: Review

  • Three-pane view in Citavi Reference Editor.

    June 26, 2018
    Does it make me "old school" if I still prefer writing out my citations by hand? Citation engines weren't available…
  • Uncooked offal in a bowl on a blue background.

    March 7, 2015
    When I find myself drowning my instinct is not to surface, but to swim deeper. I tend to operate at…
  • Stephen McHattie speaking into a microphone.

    May 1, 2014
    If I am always thinking about dismantling our binding webs of signification. Do we begin here, in the moment of…
  • Opening page from Si Spurrier's "Crossed: Wish You Were Here."

    March 18, 2014
    Somewhere between life and academia lies a sinkhole comparable to what is, in Internet parlance, produced when you divide by…
  • Grayscale photograph of the Minutemen from Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen.

    July 9, 2012
    I offer this disclaimer: I acknowledge that I have a reputation for being a bit of a purist, and mildly…
  • A tattered, impaled torso silhouetted by pale light against a biomechanical background in Event Horizon.

    June 21, 2012
    I've recently been obsessing over the 1997 film Event Horizon, a sci-fi/horror flick described by its director as "The Shining in…
  • Poster for Senseless (2008), depicting a white man in a suit sitting on a chair in a dingy room, his face caught in red crosshairs, above an image of an eyeball on a bloody spoon.

    May 31, 2011
    For 5-6 years, I’ve taught Jeffrey Cohen’s “Monster Culture” in my classroom in an essay progression focusing on horror film.…
  • One-page spread from the "Anda's Game" comic, where the face of a fat woman wearing glasses is reflected in her computer screen, along with numerous conventionally attractive warrior women avatars.

    May 30, 2011
    Sent to me via comment on my previous post on WoW as a form of prison labor in China, here…
  • Projection of Ai Weiwei onto the Chinese consulate, as part of Project Nemesis.

    May 25, 2011
    20 May 2011, 10:30p.m. @ Chinese Consulate in NY: Cuban artist Geandy Pavon, a self-professed "idolator who suspects images," has…
  • Banner displayed during Lasantha Wickrematunge's funeral procession, reading "We salute a brave journalist and trusted colleague. From Friends at Time Magazine."

    May 16, 2010
    This month marks the first anniversary of the Tamil genocide, which culminated in the Mullivaikkal massacre. On May 18, 2009,…