Desks
Film & TV
Given the long tradition of montage between major national and local sites of cine-production, is there any contemporary film not inflected by global and indeed planetary flows, trends, emergences, and catastrophes? Can the televisual role in mediating contemporary culture be overestimated?
McClane, Cultural Myth, Counter-Mythography
At a June 27, 2007 ceremony, Bruce Willis, the famous actor, donated to the Smithsonian the undershirt he sported as NYPD officer John McClane in the first movie of the Die Hard […]
The “Demonic Precision” of Pictures: Review of Jeremy Scahill’s “Dirty Wars”
The German philosopher of photography Ernst Jünger, who served with distinction during World War I, wrote about the nature of images that they bear a “dangerous precision” in the eyes of the […]
Looping out of Cinema
Lynch, Hofstadter, and Cybercinematics as Recursive Representation. The digitization of film has taken over cinema: while Avatar was considered a revolution in 2009, digitized worlds in optional 3D by now are a […]
Hannah Arendt’s Trust in Politics
At the beginning of Margarethe Von Trotta’s recent film, Hannah Arendt, a bus is driving on a gravel road at night. A man with a flashlight comes off the bus. An army […]
The Platonic Academy (On the Oscars and Contemporary Biopics)
Despite the allegedly minor status of the genre, a very high number of Oscars have gone to actors and actresses engaged in biopic performances in recent years. These biographical reenactments are regarded […]
Call/Appel/征集/Ruf—for Submissions
Feedback is a weblog publication of Open Humanities Press, a community of critics dedicated to writing at the generative interfaces between established disciplinary, institutional, and social territories and protocols. The […]