Terminal Velocity: The Cultural Logic of the Dance Music Edit
The presence of the edit looms large in today’s UK dance music scene. Also called bootlegs, refixes and reworks, edits Continue reading
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Semiotics of the End: Welcome to the Virtual Plaza
Like factories, shopping centres today exist only to efface their omnipresence. After “society as a whole takes the appearance of Continue reading
Jonas Mekas’s Cinematic You
This was where the wind blew meI saw youI recorded youI’m not sure I ever understood youI’m just a passerbyFrom Continue reading
Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV
In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Video Games
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 