Change in Tunisia… and beyond
These are cynical political times for social movements. Revolutionary action is something rarely discussed in serious conversation. Sometimes we boast hyperbolically about our “revolutionary...
Month: January 2011
The Unbearable Ephemerality of Digital Media
frontpage photo by Electron, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. “All I see is fireworks” - Drake After spending much of the last year working as...
The Palestine papers and the death of the peace process
On Monday January 23rd, Al-Jazeera leaked over 1,600 confidential documents from behind the closed doors of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. These documents consist of everything from meeting...
Black Swan is en-pointe
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is a Class-A attack on the senses. Take the opening: a dazzling camera that bobs and weaves, throws a flurry of punches to the body before darting out and sticking...
White Supremacy and the Spokane Bomb
While most of the United States celebrated Dr Martin Luther King's birthday on Monday, a reminder came from Spokane about the violence that still simmers in the nation. City workers preparing for a...
Off the Map: Shonda Rhimes’ new show struggles to find its way
Auteur television producer Shonda Rhimes is probably most famous for her work on Grey's Anatomy, a primetime medical drama that debuted in the 2005 midseason, followed by spinoff Private Practice. As...
Floods in Australia… but what about the others?
Floods are rampant worldwide just at the present. There has been one disaster after another between the flooding in the northern Australian state of Queensland, South Africa, Brazil and the...
Holding Out for a Hero: Julian Assange and moving beyond heroes
Time magazine's annual Person of the Year attracts far more attention than almost anything else the magazine publishes. This year it was Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and subject of a...