There’s a good article about the Flickr aesthetic(s) by Virginia Heffernan in last weekend’s Times. In it, Heffernan talks about the sort of community rules that determine a “good” Flickr photograph, which turn out to be a hodgepodge of technical quibbles (e.g., sharp focus), subject matter (animals, erotic photos, landscapes), and over-the-top post-processing. […]
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 […]
