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In defense of quirk

Friday, August 31, 2007

The latest rash of criticism from the literati has been targeted at quirk, or quirkiness, or whatever you’d like to call it. Manifesting itself in things like Dave Egger’s McSweeney’s, Ira Glass’s This American Life, and the films of Wes Anderson, quirk is defined as such by Michael Hirschorn in The Atlantic:
As an aesthetic [...]

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A carnivorous truth

Saturday, March 17, 2007

I just finished up watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. I was torn between feeling disgusted at the human race at large, disturbed by our inability to change things, and–ultimately–a little bit pissed off. I went to the official website of the movie after viewing the film, curious to see what they advised [...]

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Make yourself criticism-proof: become a critic!

Monday, March 12, 2007

The field of cultural theory started at an indefinite point in the not-so-distant past, somewhere during the period of the great debates over linguistic structuralism. Some might peg it on Barthes and his work on cultural mythologies. Others might cite Baudrillard’s study on the sociology of consumption. No matter where you put that point [...]

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