I ordered Vilém Flusser’s Towards a Philosophy of Photography some time ago, but I hadn’t gotten around to reading it until recently. For some reason–and maybe I just haven’t heard about it?–Flusser doesn’t seem to have much of a U.S. following, which may have kept me from delving into the book as quickly as […]
Could it be true? Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has been adapted as a graphic novel?! Finally, offhand anti-Americanism will become an accessible option for the alt-comic crowd. Oh wait…well, whatever–at least it has its market cut out for it.
To make things even juicier, Zinn & Co. have […]
I realize it’s taken awhile to catch up with the second part of my write-up. Mitchell was as engaging a speaker as he is a writer, but I’m omitting some of what he said in this paraphrase. He spent some time explicating a few image categories that Rancière outlines in The Future of […]
I’m finally getting around to posting notes about “The Future of the Image,” a lecture panel at Columbia University last week featuring visual theorists W. J. T. Mitchell and Jacques Rancière. For an academic lecture, the place was packed–I arrived 15 minutes early and got one of the last seats. Many people were […]
