You might remember that Nabokov’s Despair features a man convinced he’s found his doppelgänger. He enlists the doppelgänger in a murder plot only to discover — SPOILER? — that…
Beaches of Agnes Sita Sings the Blues You, the Living Meek’s Cutoff Talk to Her The Saddest Music in the World Russian Ark Little Otik…
A sequence from A Late Quartet (2012). About 5 minutes in, Walken is teaching a group of string players, signalling to us that we’re in a…
Ghada Amer at Cheim + Read by KARL STEEL Two quick points: ONE. First, if you’re a medievalist, particularly a digital humanities medievalist, and you’re not…
Tony Lewis from Whitney Biennial by KARL STEEL What the title says. Over the past couple days, I’ve been reading David Nirenberg’s forthcoming Neighboring Faiths: Christianity,…
by KARL STEEL A few nights ago, I made the mistake of watching The Horde, a 2012 film produced by the Orthodox Encyclopedia, (!), that…
by KARL STEEL First, of course, read Jeffrey on Allan Mitchell’s Becoming Human, which I’m co-endorsing as a masterpiece. I’m promising you my own, briefer…
Sri Lankan oysters (?), BN fr. 22971 by KARL STEEL Hey gang! I’ve just (finally) submitted my contribution for Steve Mentz’s forthcoming Oceanic New York anthology.…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97nvOSBDnk] by KARL STEEL Cameron Kunzelman, a smart guy who writes about video games and black teeshirts, among other things, blogged about the interface…
What you see above is most of today. We started by talking about Kzoo; everyone’s encouraged to review the #kzoo2014 twitter hashtag, and to get a…
