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July 2011
The Archives
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07.08.11Project NimWisconsin Death Trip, The King, Man On Wire, a third of the Red Riding Trilogy... James Marsh is one of the most original British documentary and feature filmmakers of his generation. His latest, Project Nim, is reviewed in today's NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/movies/project-nim-about-a-chimpanzee-subjected-to-research-review.html?hpw [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/yxQap9AAPOs" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/pG9IAnmDMCU" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
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07.06.11Hauntology'As a reflection of the zeitgeist, hauntology is, above all, the product of a time which is seriously "out of joint" (Hamlet is one of Derrida's crucial points of reference in Spectres of Marx). There is a prevailing sense among hauntologists that culture has lost its momentum and that we are all stuck at the "end of history". Meanwhile, new technologies are dislocating more traditional notions of time and place. Smartphones, for instance, encourage us never to fully commit to the here and now, fostering a ghostly presence-absence. Internet time (which is increasingly replacing clock time) results in a ...
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07.04.11Stephen King on Bright’s PassageJosh Ritter's debut novel Bright's Passage is published by Dial Press. Here's Stephen King's review in the NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-brights-passage-by-josh-ritter.html [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rzzJY7N5mpg" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]