Through constant oscillation between the imagined and the tangible, Auden presents the problem of love; even when the “you” only exists in the imagined past, the speaker cannot help but try, through language, to bring them into the tangible present.
Feeds are flooded with videos of Japanese and Korean supermarkets, convenience stores, and 7/11s. What does it mean for Asians to be "next in line to disappear," when they are now made so increasingly visible in contemporary media?
While flying, telekinesis, super strength, and bending the space-time continuum are all well and cool, they wouldn't be possible without the labor of VFX artists. Entertainment news sources and anonymous testimonials by VFX workers see the on-screen CGI quality decline as a residual consequence of an even larger issue at hand: getting pixel-fucked from behind by Marvel. What exactly is pixel-fucking?
"You’re wondering what they’re wearing and they’re making money off of your attention." How have the fashion aesthetics of the rich contributed to wealth inequality?
The practice of serializing a novel is older than the most well-known Victorian-era serial, Oliver Twist. Yet, why is the phenomenon re-emerging in 2022? When people today can access most media at all times, why choose to engage in a 125-year-old novel at a slow, serialized pace? Serialized literature or serialized content has always been present in societal media.
A visual information society, always susceptible to the mistrust of mediation, always fraught with anxiety about photography and the news, with their privileged relationship to the real, always worrying about the “truth”––these are observations already metabolized, and the exhibit does not take them in new directions, nor does it find new forms for its expressions.
Then, on a whim, the poetry of the world, ripe with beauty and mystery, blooms in front of us. Everything is simply as it is, lively and talking to us.
Scientific hypotheses generally come in the form of “if . . . then . . .” statements, and thus they predict a specific chronology: first one thing happens, then another. But what happens when you lose track of this neat …
There are a number of different narratives about the climate crisis. Some provoke hope or despair, others instill fear, and others still provoke apathy or outright denial. Perhaps neither of these portrayals are correct. Perhaps both of them are.
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