An attempt at filling in the gaps of the discourse surrounding Dom Kereta When I first arrived in Warsaw in September, everyone was already abuzz with talk of the October opening of Dom Kereta, known to Yankees like me as Keret House. It wasn’t only Polish acquaintances that said I had to visit, either. I was …
Hurricane Sandy hit the North-East US at a time of ongoing consolidation of the US nation-state and its militarised apparatus of governance that is the US national security state. It reaffirmed to many that times of emergency, whether man-made or environmental, prove the necessity of government, of a coordinated response that seeks to alleviate danger …
On September 19, 1995, The New York Times and The Washington Post, at the behest of the FBI, ran a 35,000-word essay penned by none other than the infamous Unabomber. The essay was originally titled Industrial Society and Its Future by its author, whose identity was still unknown when the “Unabomber Manifesto” was published. It …
Like the previous installment in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises has garnered a slew of political responses in the short time since its release this past July. And while valuations of the film’s ostensible politics have tended to fall along predictable American party lines, what is most surprising about such responses …
[Note: As of the writing of this article, the author has not yet seen Breaking Bad’s Season 5 premiere. The episode aired Sunday, July 15, 2012] I am going to begin from the critical consensus-based assumption that we do care about Breaking Bad. To cite just one example, last year Chuck Klosterman began his article …
Introduction The last year has witnessed an increasing focus on the prevalence of racism, antisemitism and hooliganism in the host countries of Euro 2012, Poland and the Ukraine, within and beyond the English media landscape. The most recent example of this was the BBC Panorama documentary entitled ‘Stadiums of Hate’, aired on 28 May 2012, …
When I was in graduate school in Rochester, NY, I briefly taught at the Eastman School of Music. To get to my classroom, I had to walk through the world famous Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater. In the dead of Rochester’s suffocating winter, I’d pass through the walkway behind top row of seats in the …
I do not stir. The frost makes a flower, The dew makes a star, The dead bell, The dead bell. Somebody’s done for. Death & Co. Sylvia Plath I can’t rise, I might be rising and not-risen I am waiting for morning to come. I can’t move and immobile I finally see myself from above. …
magda and łukasz, „mała kultura współczesna”: What were your reactions – as artists and as local residents – to the events of the Euro 2008 held in your hometown in Switzerland? carmen and doma, !mediengruppe bitnik: „Public Viewing Zone”, „City Dressing”, „Walk of Fans”, „Commercial Display”, „Hospitality Zone”, „Host City”, „Hoogan” (Hooligan Database). Our first …
A review of Springtime: The New Student Rebellions, edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri, Verso, London 2011. I was admittedly sceptical about reading Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri’s (edited volume, 2011), Springtime: The New Student Rebellions. Although I participated in and was in awe of the student protests that took place in the UK in …