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- Where does Spirit find itself today? Deep below the surface of the earth, in a drill digging deeper, dirt packed in on all sides, motivated by a memory of a dream of an end.
- Technology sutures the gap between faith and Enlightenment, but the uncanny seeps through nonetheless.
- Aspirational reading list; actual reading list; reading habits and data for the year of 2023.
- Conceptual drawings and installation photography by Sarah Greig and Therese Mastroiacovo at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery.
Blog
Film Diary
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Traffic (2000)
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Days of Heaven (1978)
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Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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The Bellboy (1960)
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The French Connection (1971)
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
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The Sting (1973)
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I’m Not There (2007)
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Blast of Silence (1961)
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Le cercle rouge (1992)
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Husbands and Wives (1992)
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Flesh (1968)
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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A Serious Man (2009)
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The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Art Criticism
- Thinking Again and Supposing Conceptual drawings and installation photography by Sarah Greig and Therese Mastroiacovo at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery.
- My First Film Zia Anger’s online performance-video in the early Pandemic Age.
- Points of Light Hito Steyerl and Jean-Luc Godard in an exhibition of video art at the MAC.
Literary Criticism
- Light Enough to Burn a Hole in the Sun Where does Spirit find itself today? Deep below the surface of the earth, in a drill digging deeper, dirt packed in on all sides, motivated by a memory of a dream of an end.
- Reading List 2023 Aspirational reading list; actual reading list; reading habits and data for the year of 2023.
- Introducing The Sophia Review Editorial statement and call for papers for the Students of Philosophy Association journal, published by Concordia University. An over-ambitious literary manifesto by the author of this website.
Marxism
- Mapping the Euro Commie-scene: Interview with Ben Noys Editor of Communization and its Discontents Benjamin Noys joins Uriah for a discussion taking Endnotes’s critical appraisal of Tiqqun / The Invisible Committee as a starting point. We cover the political and cultural context in the UK, France and Italy, before getting into the differences between the anarchist and the Marxist tendencies of communization theory.
- Tending the Revolutionary Garden: Interview with Jasper Bernes A conversation with Jasper Bernes discussing his essay from Endnotes 3, and the follow up The Belly of the Revolution. Questions of logistics, agriculture, and technology; Marx’s concept of the metabolic rift; permaculture; reparations; and more.
- Continuity & Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain Review of Joshua Moufawad-Paul’s book of Maoist philosophy, published by Zero Books.
Philosophy
- The Truth is Haunted Technology sutures the gap between faith and Enlightenment, but the uncanny seeps through nonetheless.
- A Cryptoeconomy of Affect: Interview with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?