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we are tired of division: media, culture, society, law, meaning, humanity, and so on. these are interconnected terms, defined by one another. they must be re-united.
explication has been held prisoner by written language for too long. as if we only understand words. as if true meaning were only possible to produce there. we do not [...]

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over the summer, i got a chance to see gustav klimt’s beethoven frieze nestled in the basement of the architecturally stunning (but otherwise uninteresting) secession building. having had no idea before of the mere existence of the beethoven frieze i was totally stunned by the beauty and scale of frieze. measuring at least 6 feet [...]

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i hated lacrosse in high school, but its become a lot more fun in college. maybe its because i no longer have to deal with the lacrosse players (who were the reason i disliked the sport) or maybe its because i’ve just started liking sports more. (i also hated hockey in high school, but now [...]

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there were no less than five encores at the franz ferdinand concert last concert night. each built on the energy of preceeding encore, and each song somehow bringing the energy of the show even higher than it had been before. in fact, before playing the fifth song of the encore, franz ferdinand brought the born [...]

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i’ve been taking an outstanding film theory class with phil rosen this semester. rosen, it tuns out, is kind of the reigning critical perspective on the authors we are reading: eisenstein, bazin, munsterberg, etc.
a couple of weeks ago, in an attempt to both exorcise my creative demons and begin assessing the necessary theory [...]

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it has been an incredibly rich semester for film at brown. in addition to providence’s beloved french film festival (run by richard manning and the amazing people over at the mcm department) there has also been an israeli film festival, and soon enough, the ivy film festival. this is not to say anything of the [...]

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last friday, after drinks at the gcb (to celebrate), i put the finishing touches on my door knocker project. this project represented the final (and only assignment) for a wonderful course i took this semester called 13 things.
frankly, i never though i would respect archaeology as much as i do now.
to compliment my research on [...]

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the first awesome present of the year has been given, and received by me. this delightful remote control wall-e was a gift of a housemate for our seasonal secret santa, and boy did she impress. my wall-e moves backwards, forwards, and turns! the noises are user-provided, but i am more than capable of that!
Waaaaaahhhhhllll-eeee!

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mckenzie wark was at brown this morning, talking about his recent gamer theory project. for those who haven’t read it, gamer theory is a rather indirect assessment of what we might call the gamic experience. i mean this in the sense that whatever pauline kael was to cinema, mckenzie wark might be to game studies. [...]

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