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All About Aid.

Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.

a week ago 7 votes
Before The Past Was New.

Why should we bother trying to understand?

2 weeks ago 8 votes
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Another of my essays in French.

2 weeks ago 10 votes
What We Talk About, When We Talk About Talks.

The End may be further away than you think.

3 weeks ago 12 votes

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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse

One often hears that there’s no money to be made in music anymore. But then, there was no money to be made in music when Bob Dylan started his career either—at least according to Bob Dylan. “If you could just support yourself, you were doin’ good,” he says in an interview clip included in the […]

23 hours ago 2 votes
How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

This piece picks up where Part 1 of Peter Kaufman’s article left off yesterday… The epistemological nightmare we seem to be in, bombarded over our screens and speakers with so many moving-image messages per day, false and true, is at least in part due to the paralysis that we – scholars, journalists, and regulators, but […]

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