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Jeremy Hatch
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Why Are Artists Poor?
It’s a question close to our hearts, and Andrew Keen — who has argued, in his own words, that “the Internet is killing our culture and undermining the livelihood of cultural producers” — addresses it in a Telegraph UK article…
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Nicolas Le Borgne
The art website Fecal Face has a wonderful feature where they invite artists to submit some pieces along with answers to a standard questionnaire. From time to time they run one of these submissions as a “mini-interview.” Yesterday’s subject was…
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Kubrick’s 1961 Lolita is the First 70s Movie
The other day I read a rambling but entertaining essay over on Bright Lights Film Journal, called All Tomorrow’s Playground Narratives, which analyzed Kubrick’s Lolita in terms of — well, approximately anything that occurred to the guy, it would seem.…
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Claire Denis Symposium at Reverse Shot
Reverse Shot — a geeky film journal that I recently discovered and have found interesting — has devoted the bulk of issue #25 to a symposium on the influential French director Claire Denis. Fourteen authors take on nine of Denis’…
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Prepay is On; Let’s Talk Till My Minutes Are Gone
Juxtapoz has a post up about a big mural project in Philly that Stephen Powers (aka ESPO) is organizing and participating in: Love Letter. From the post (which was taken from the project website): “Love Letter is literally a love…
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Lazy Journalists Love Pictures of Abandoned Stuff
About a week ago Vice published an amusing article by Thomas Morton about what happens when journalists from outside Detroit come into the city to do a story: they cover their preconceptions, shoot “ruin porn,” and miss actual stories right under…
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Leibovitz Schadenfreude
Bill Wyman, formerly the arts editor of NPR and Salon.com, these days writes a blog called Hitsville. The other day he made a post that traced Annie Leibovitz’s trajectory from artist-journalist to celebrity suck-up, and basically says — after setting Leibovitz’s personal…
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Rosenberg on Y Combinator’s Call for Journalism Startups
Yesterday I interviewed Scott Rosenberg at length for the Rumpus, and we spent a lot of time talking about the news industry and how it relates to online publishing, with special reference to blogging. At one point he said (to…
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Some Kind of 29th-Century Sci-Fi Lobster
Over at New York Magazine, Sam Anderson (interviewed here) has published a review of Inherent Vice that is one of the funniest pans of a novel I’ve ever read. “There is no easy way to say this,” Anderson begins, “so here…
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A Theory of Social Justice
I’ve previously mentioned The Examined Life, the film and book that examines the views of eight contemporary philosophers, and after watching the film American Casino yesterday — which investigates the subprime lending scandal and presents some awful examples of social…
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The End of News? Another Beginning
“[The] image of the Internet as parasite has some foundation. Without the vital news-gathering performed by established institutions, many Web sites would sputter and die. “In their sweep and scorn, however, [statements like ‘the parasite is killing the host’] seem…