...Examined in the Work of Catherine Opie and Jeremy Chandler
Working for years in animal sanctuaries and particularly with wolves and dogs has reaffirmed my faith – as if I ever had any doubt – about the exquisite efficiency of evolution and the inherent fairness of zoology. Zoology as an academic research field is of course as subject to factionalized competition and disagreement as is any other institutional department, but recent progress in the association of particular encodings of DNA with concurrent traits in “personality” and appearance provides more and more support for the argument that as many traits of behavior are determined by biochemistry as by influences of external development. Thus the ...
“Out of the Closet and into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek” by Henry Jenkins
Caesarea Mushroom This post is concerned with “Out of the Closet and into the Universe: Queers and Star Trek” by Henry Jenkins. Even though this piece is nominally about homosexuality vis a ...
Comments on Selections from German Ideology; “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception;” and “Myth Today”
"Enraged by Tea," one of my all-time photophone favorites, from 2005. The three essays discussed in this response paper relate to contemporary concepts around the analysis of visual culture through the interpretation ...
Peak Libraries: Developing Sensitivity to Future Consequences
Peak Libraries: Developing Sensitivity to Future Consequences Insensitivity to future consequences is an identified behavioral aberration experienced by people who have experienced traumatic brain injuries to the cerebral cortex (Franck, 1995). Though ...
“The Culture War: It’s Back”
Excellent essay by Gary Kamiya on Salon.com The culture war: It's back! "Democrats may have thought that the disastrous Bush years killed the GOP's favorite tactic. The ...
Clearwater Libraries Closed as Sports Culture Rolls On
"I'm really shocked that the city has made the decision to close the library on Friday and Saturdays," resident June Connell said of the city's proposal to close the Countryside ...
WFLA Channel 8 Radar Trouble
What's going on with this radar image captured from Tampa Bay NBC affiliate WFLA on 8 September 2006 (during the week Hurricane Ike was just off the coast out in the ...
Movies, July 2008
Mexican red wolf, courtesy U.S. Department of the Interior Following, Christopher Nolan, (1998) ••••; Haven, Frank E. Flowers, (2004) ••••; Love Liza, Gordy Hoffman, (2002) •••••; Armistead Maupin's ...
“In Plato’s Cave” by Susan Sontag from On Photography, 1977
[Green turtle, albino. By David Monniaux] "To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed." On Photography, Susan Sontag's exhaustive critique of photography, which excoriated photographers even as it elevated the art form, opens ...
“Pere Ubu” by Dora Maar, 1936
Pere Ubu by Dora Maar, 1936 Authorship by Dora Maar gives this photograph authentic historic and even feminist credibility but I chose it because my main interest in art overall is the ...
On “Situationism: A Primer” by Marina LaPalma (Grim)
Situationist grafitti, Menton, Occitania, 2006 (the 1968 slogan "It is forbidden to forbid", with missing apostrophe). Wikipedia Commons “Rather -- just as certain biologists argue for the maintenance of species diversity among ...
The Role of Photography in Construction of Alterity
Nightclub in Beirut, Lebanon (Stephanie Sinclair, 2005) In July of 2006, during a bout of intense border battles between Israeli armed forces and members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, a photograph made by Stephanie ...
Italian Greyhound in Video for “The Perfect Drug”
Though Trent Reznor allegedly dislikes this video and will not perform "The Perfect Drug" live, here is further proof, as if any is needed, that this is one of Nine Inch ...
On bell hooks and Claude Cahun
Two black women wearing glasses and blue paisley bandanas, 25 February 1999, Photographer unknown In her essay “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life,” bell hooks uses a story about the relationship she ...
On “Ghost Image” by Hervé Guibert (1981)
"Ghost Ship (Deliver Us)" by Gremlins CC, Burnham on Sea Carnival 2006 “It seemed that she was trying to convey to me a message of her sadness.” Herve Guibert’s essay “Ghost Image” ...
San Francisco Art Institute Suspends Animal Snuff Video Exhibit
San Francisco Art Institute Suspends Animal Snuff Video Exhibit Public forum scheduled for Monday, March 31st to open up dialogue An installtion by Adel ...
CubicEye.net Comparison With Eyebeam.org and the Work of Cory Arcangel
Scene from Cory Arcangel installation Super Mario Clouds, 2002 Representation of three-dimensional forms through the single-point, single-plane perspective of the cathode-ray tube projection used for most ...
Contextualist Approaches to Photography/The Photograph as Cultural Construction (Deconstructive Discourse)
"Inside a Car Wash" “…One of the defining features of Orientalist painting is its dependence for its very existence on a presence that is always an absence: ...
Photo of the Week: “Chicken” by Catherine Opie, 1991, from the series Being and Having
"Chicken" by Catherine Opie from Being and Having, 1991 One of my goals this year is to be more intellectually open to ...
The Ghostface and the Darkness
Astra finds her way to the doorway. Astra has a New Year's present, a motion-activated dual 150 watt sensor light that activates when she steps close to the path to ...
“Labourages Nivernais” by Rosa Bonheur
The Horse Fair: It's not Nivernais "Labourages Nivernais (Ploughing in the Nivernais)" by Rosa Bonheur If 19th century French painter Rosa Bonheur believed in reincarnation, she ...
The Guennol Lioness
The tiny Guennol Lioness was sold at Sotheby's antiquities auction the first week of December by one private collector to ...
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