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Flash + Cube (1965-1975)
Flash + Cube (1965-1975) by Marget Long Knowledge comes only in flashes. –Walter Benjamin Flash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube—the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials—a “terrorist letter,” G.I. photographs from Vietnam, Sylvania flashcube advertisements, // Read more…
art, flashcube, history of photography, photography, photomontage, Sylvania, visual studies
Love/Desire
Love/Desire by Lauren Berlant Dead Letter Office (for BABEL Working Group). In the study of gender and sexuality, one might expect work on desire and love to be about sexuality, identity, and intimacy: about sexual object choice and erotic practice, the disparate dramas lived by various genders, and the centrality of intimate inclinations, emotions, and // Read more…
attachment, capitalism, desire, erotics, fantasy, Freud, intimacy, Lacan, love, psychoanalytic theory, queer studies, seuxality
Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art
Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art by Milcho Manchevski Dead Letter Office (for BABEL Working Group). [still images on front cover from Street by Milcho Manchevski, ©1999] Reflecting upon his experience making his 2010 feature film Mothers, a cinematic triptych interweaving three narratives that are each, in their own way, about the // Read more…
Adrian Martin, film theory, filmmaking, Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski, Mothers (feature film)
The Death of Conrad Unger: Some Conjectures Regarding Parasitosis and Associated Suicide Behavior
The Death of Conrad Unger: Some Conjectures Regarding Parasitosis and Associated Suicide Behavior by Gary J. Shipley Dead Letter Office (for BABEL Working Group). Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2012. 35 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0615600307. Free download or $9.00 in print. The death by suicide of Gary J Shipley’s close friend, Conrad Unger (writer, theorist and amateur // Read more…
David Foster Wallace, entomology, essay-fiction, Gerard de Nerval, necrology, parasitosis, suicide, Virginia Woolf
Annotations to Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech!
Ann Hassan Glossator Special Editions. Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2012. 282 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1468129847. Free download + $17.00 in print. Geoffrey Hill’s Speech! Speech! (2000) encapsulates two thousand years’ worth of utterances in a symbolic act of remembrance and expression of despair for the current age, in which we find “our minds and ears fouled by degraded // Read more…
