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The Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens was in the process of dismantling its (Do It) Outside exhibition, a show that is–or, now, was–nothing but displays of…
Maybe you’ve also just graded your first set of Canterbury Tales papers. Mine were on the Physician’s Tale, where I now routinely start because of David Wallace’s…
Here’s how it worked: Well, it didn’t work, and it worked. Here’s the problem: smart phones connect us with the world and our friends, so…
In a post yesterday on The Parallax View and The Skin I Live In, I wrote Briefly, because I haven’t finished watching the one yet.…
Tomorrow’s the first day of Fall 2013 classes at Brooklyn College. If you teach college, you probably started this week too, and you likewise know…
The second half of The Parallax View deserves its high reputation; it merits sharing a name with a not-inconsiderable book. But the film’s first half is just…
by KARL STEEL Last Winter, Michael O’Rourke asked me to contribute to a Rhizomes special issue on Karen Barad (list of contributors here). I hesitated for…
by KARL STEEL Because Julia Carrie Wong has already destroyed David Brooks’ “A Nation of Barrel Fish Mutts,” my dog post can be nothing but a whisper…
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Valerie Hegarty’s Alternative Histories installation in the Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms are, as she says, a kind of return of the…
