Dziga Vertov: Wild Man of Soviet Montage Dziga Vertov is currently the subject of an extensive retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This includes a symposium on the great Russian director’s work, featuring scholar…
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Dziga Vertov: Wild Man of Soviet Montage Dziga Vertov is currently the subject of an extensive retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. This includes a symposium on the great Russian director’s work, featuring scholar…
It’s no secret, I’m working on another Thomas Pynchon paper and it has to do with entropy as a trope for anxieties about modernism. “Thomas Pynchon, Newton’s Second Law, and Entropy” came up in my googles and I’m posting it here for future reference. If you’re interested, this post is the place to begin; followed…
No relation to the minotaur apparently, but literally a “bull with five horns” from Frankish mythology…I’m not 100% sure how/why I came across the fabled beast in my browsing but it definitely had something to do with research on evil Merovingian queens (one of which is pregnant in this illustration):
When I sat down to read this post “Against the New Vitalism” I was momentarily dazed by the opening paragraph: Words are material; they matter. Words are material that matter.1 “Words,” Virginia Woolf reminds us, are “stored with meanings, with memories.”2 Words are historical, and words are relational. Words are living, and words are alive. This…