The Hour Blew
The digital form still feels new to me, and slightly intangible when I use it. Nevertheless, I use it constantly—though its workings remain unclear. That confusion can be liberating. It creates layers and dimensions I don’t understand and cannot visualize. … READ MORE
Outtakes: California Company Town
I finished the film California Company Town in 2008. The film was a way of looking at the fallibility of history, to be able to depict a process of political thought against the markings it makes on landscape. Most of … READ MORE
The Binder and the Server
Lackeys Many young people strangely boast of being “motivated”; they re-request apprenticeships and permanent training. It’s up to them to discover what they’re being made to serve. —Gilles Deleuze At first a convenience, then quickly a conundrum: Of course we … READ MORE
Fête in Venice
Hiroko Ikegami. The Great Migrator: Robert Rauschenberg and the Global Rise of American Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 288 pp., 87 color ills. $29.95 Hiroko Ikegami’s The Great Migrator, which toward the end quotes Homi Bhabha on the subjects … READ MORE
