arts and culture
Quibbling with Quibi: Considerations on the new platform of ‘quick bite’ entertainment
May 19, 2020Quibi, which stands for Quick Bites—bursts of entertainment, none more than 10 minutes and most less, designed for mobile phone use on the go—launched in the U.S. in early April in the midst of the quarantine.
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‘Home Before Dark’ and fading patriarchal power
May 12, 2020It’s the first masterful series from Apple TV+.
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‘Anonymous Man’: Astounding new choral CD on home, homelessness and history
May 8, 2020Perhaps the next time we see people living on the street they won’t appear so anonymous.
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Class and corona culture: The more things change…
April 21, 2020In many ways the rearrangement of life in the wake of the global impact of the coronavirus has created a brave new world.
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Drowning with our money belts: Putting profits before people in time of crisis
April 17, 2020Revisiting the wisdom of fables is not nostalgia for childhood; perhaps, instead, it is the imperative self-critical practice that will reconnect us to the wisdom we possessed as children.
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