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Brodsky and Auden's Solitary Figures by Cameron Saltsman

W.H. Auden and Joseph Brodsky: An Impossible Other

by Cameron SaltsmanPosted on January 30, 2023February 17, 2023

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.

CriticismInterdisciplinary SeminarLove modernism poetry w.h. auden

Hypervisible: An Asian Food Fetish

by Eleanor MacagbaPosted on December 14, 2022December 12, 2022

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?

Creative NonfictionCriticismIndependent Projectaesthetics asian american food

Pixelf*ucking: The Latest Labor Malpractice by Sofía Sanchez

Pixelf*cking: The Latest Labor Malpractice

by Sofía SanchezPosted on December 12, 2022December 12, 2022

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?

CriticismIndependent Projectfilm labor television

Nuance and Instability: On Mona Hatoum

by Maya Masa’dehPosted on November 22, 2022November 18, 2022

She grew into “an artist whose life experience is anything but clean and neat,” experiences which would then translate into her art.

Arts WorkshopCriticismart identity performance

The War of Wealth by Charles Turner Dazey (1895)

First, We Eat With Our Eyes: The Aesthetics of the Rich

by Maia McDonaldPosted on October 29, 2022October 29, 2022

"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?

CriticismIndependent Projectaesthetics celebrity fashion inequality

Dracula Daily & The Tradition of Serialized Literature

by Sofía SanchezPosted on October 27, 2022October 28, 2022

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.

CriticismIndependent Projectinternet literature new media

A librarian sits amid piles of books and papers.

Information Processing

by Katherine WilliamsPosted on October 25, 2022May 13, 2024

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.

CriticismIndependent Projectaesthetics contemporary art curation media photography

Examining the power of television through As We See It

by Jami EllenPosted on October 3, 2022September 30, 2022

Shows like As We See It are vital to society’s media literacy and our understanding of autism.

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismcomedy drama representation

Identification and Invisibility: Invisible Man

by Luke BarberPosted on September 16, 2022September 14, 2022

Life is a constant series of cycles through which the subject learns and unlearns understanding the self more deeply but never entirely.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminaridentity psychoanalysis race

Hot or Not? Jury’s Out

by Matigan KingPosted on September 14, 2022September 9, 2022

How can one scrutinize her body when she is busy enjoying life?

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismbeauty standards comedy gender

A Poet’s Film

by Zhuoer ChenPosted on September 12, 2022September 23, 2022

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.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarfilm spirituality temporality

The Calcutta Chromosome, Science, and Time

by Sandy GoldshteynPosted on September 7, 2022March 30, 2023

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 …

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminarscience science fiction temporality

Graffiti of a chick, captioned "Friend not omelet"

On Veganism

by Ben CrestoPosted on May 16, 2022July 11, 2022

An open letter to vegans, omnivores, and those in-between

Creative NonfictionCriticismenvironmentalism subculture

How to Save the Planet? Tell the Right Stories.

by Emily GonieaPosted on May 10, 2022

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.

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismclimate change consumerism environment narrative

Sources

by Katherine WilliamsPosted on May 6, 2022

Although the internet has always depended on circulation, particularly since the visual turn, it is when those aesthetics begin to originate online that the source of our reality begins to falter.

Advanced Writing CourseCriticismaesthetics internet photography social media

Confluence

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