Resources for July 30, 2015

Bookchin, Murray, Billy Bragg and John Taylor Gatto. "Ecocidal, Homicidal, Mass-Instructed Me! (Ecology, Hierarchy, Education and Social Control)." Unwelcome Guests #319 (August 13, 2006)




Gatto, John Taylor, et al. "Why Do You Stay in Prison When the Door is Open? (The Market, the Gift, and the Destruction of Thought)." Unwelcome Guests #320 (August 20, 2006) ["Economics is usually spoken about as a subcategory of activity within the politics of society, but I would like to suggest that the economics of our society are the politics of our society - in that they create the type of political structures and institutions we have. Whereas it is usually said that we have a market economy, what we in fact have is a market society, a market government. Everything is shaped by that fact, even people's individual personalities and behavior, through the institutions of the society. The persistent social ills, poverty, war, violence, greed, waste, remain because they are intrinsic to the structure of markets, not aberrations within in it."]

Ramsey, Joseph. "Who Will Rule the Webbing of the World." Red Wedge (July 27, 2015)

Coval, Kevin, et al. "The Politics of Hip-Hop." We Are Many (July 2, 2015)





Gatto, John Taylor. The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation into the Prison of Modern Schooling. (Entire book available on Internet Archive as a PDF: 2003)

Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (Metanoia Films: Scott Noble, 2010: 119 mins) ["Human Resources is a documentary about Social Control, examining the history, the philosophy and ultimately the pathology of elite power."]

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (USA/UK: Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman, 2011: 85 mins) ["For years, the Earth Liberation Front–autonomous individuals operating in separate anonymous cells without any central leadership–carried out spectacular direct-actions against businesses that destroy the environment. Some of the targets were logging corporations, SUV dealerships, ranger stations, a slaughterhouse and a multi-million dollar ski-lodge at Vail, Colorado that was expanding into national forest. As authorities were not able to crack the case and disbanded many years later, the FBI got lucky when they were led to a former activist who agreed to co-operate with them and become an informant. If A Tree Falls provokes hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way ‘terrorism’ is defined by following the story of the activists who were turned over to the FBI, and their fate."]

Resources for July 28, 2015

Cardwell, Diane. "Capturing the Stillness in Surfer Portraits." Lens (July 20, 2015)

Curtis, Adam and John Taylor Gatto. "Ephors and Citizens (Engineering America's Faux Democracy - Part 2)." Unwelcome Guests #316 (July 23, 2006)

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.--Ray Bradbury

Weird Things All Couples Fight About

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Rahbar, Jean. "U.S. ambivalence about torture: an analysis of post-9/11 films." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)

Myles, Sarah. "HBO Will Adapt Rorschach And Awe – Examining The Architects Of CIA Torture." We Got This Covered (March 2015)

Harvey, Dennis. "I Wanna Be Adored?" Keyframe (March 7, 2014) ["Recalling the spectacular rise and fall of Stone Roses, Shane Meadows’ MADE OF STONE proffers not-giving-an-eff is intrinsic to what made the band monumental."]

Curtis, Adam and John Taylor Gatto. "The Policeman in Your Head (Engineering America's Faux Democracy - Part 3)." Unwelcome Guests #317 (July 30, 2006)

Tolson, Mike, Leah Binkovitz and St. John Barned-Smith. "Bland's image goes far beyond dash-cam video." Houston Chronicle (July 25, 2015) ["Personal videos, friends paint portrait of drive for racial unity"]





Curtis, Adam and John Taylor Gatto. "Gilded Cage (Engineering America's Faux Democracy - Part 4)." Unwelcome Guests #318 (August 6, 2006)

Resources for July 25, 2015

"Max Max Special 2: Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road." Sordid Cinema #98 (May 24, 2015)





Tatarska, Anna. "Signs of the Times: The Tribe." Keyframe (July 22, 2015)

Benedict, Steven. "The King's Speech." (February 10, 2011)

Benedict, Steven. Groundhog Day." (February 3, 2011)

Tatarska, Anna. "The Making of Vulva 3.0." Keyframe (July 14, 2015) ["Ulrike Zimmerman: ‘People are afraid of female sexuality. Everyone. Even the women themselves.’"]





Curtis, Adam and John Taylor Gatto. "Slaphappiness Machines (Engineering America's Faux Democracy - Part 1)." Unwelcome Guests #315 (July 16, 2006)

The Century of the Self (United Kingdom: Adam Curtis, 2002: Four 60 minute episodes) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

The Century of the Self (United Kingdom: Adam Curtis, 2002)

The Century of the Self (United Kingdom: Adam Curtis, 2002: 240 mins)

Atkinson, Michael. "Archival Trouble: The fiction-free science fiction of Adam Curtis." Moving Image Source (February 16, 2012)

Ball, Norman. "The Power of Auteurs and the Last Man Standing: Adam Curtis' Documentary Nightmares." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

Century of the Self (BBC Documentary: Adam Curtis, 2002: Four 60 minute episodes) ["To many in both business and government, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power is truly moved into the hands of the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How is the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interest? The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund’s devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund’s great grandson, Matthew Freud. Sigmund Freud’s work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society’s belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man’s ultimate goal."]

Curtis, Adam and John Taylor Gatto. "Slaphappiness Machines (Engineering America's Faux Democracy - Part 1)." Unwelcome Guests #315 (July 16, 2006)

Resources for July 22, 2015

Hofstadter, Douglas, et al. "Translation." Radiolab 13.1 (2015)

Hart, Veronica and Steven Morowitz. "The Opening of Misty Beethoven." The Projection Booth #111 (April 23, 2013) ["Radley Metzger's The Opening of Misty Beethoven, a re-telling of Pygmalion, was made at the height of porno chic. We're joined by Steven Morowitz of Distribpix, the company behind the new restoration of the film, and Veronica Hart, director of the musical version of Misty Beethoven."]

"Mad Max Special Part 1 Mad Max and The Road Warrior." Sordid Cinema #98 (May 19, 2015)

Rife, Katie. "Frozen cameras, naked extras, and other tales from the set of The Revenant." AV Club (July 22, 2015)

Brown, Heather. "Love and BDSM Meet in The Duke of Burgundy." Bitch Flicks (May 8, 2015)

Radney, Aaron. "How Avatar: The Last Airbender Demonstrates a More Inclusive Masculinity." Bitch Flicks (June 22, 2015)

Resources for July 21, 2015

Doctorow, Cory. "Middle schooler wins C-SPAN prize for doc about NSA spying." Boing Boing (March 6, 2014) ["Dave from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Remember when Rep. Mike Rogers likened opponents of pernicious cybersecurity legislation to 14-year-olds? It turns out that middle-school-age students are also well-prepared to debate him on the NSA's programs as well. EFF congratulates students from two middle schools who took home top prizes in the C-SPAN StudentCam 2014 competition for young filmmakers with their documentaries on the debate over mass surveillance."]

Leigh, Jennifer Jason. "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle." Pinewood Dialogues (November 23, 1994) ["Jennifer Jason Leigh is remarkable for her chameleon-like ability to transform herself, physically and psychologically, for each of her roles. Her ability to inhabit her characters comes from an intensive process of preparation and research, and from a fearlessness that allows her to abandon her reflective personality and become another person onscreen. Leigh has consistently sought out risky, interesting roles, working for such directors as Robert Altman, David Cronenberg, and Alan Rudolph. She spoke at the Museum on the day she received rave reviews for her dazzling portrayal of Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle."]

Jones, Chuck. "Chuck Amuk." Pinewood Dialogues (December 17, 1994 and December 18, 1994) ["Working at Warner Bros. from 1938 through 1962, legendary animator Chuck Jones perfected the wisecracking Bugs Bunny, the short-tempered Daffy Duck, and the amorous Pepé Le Pew. The purest expression of his artistry is his Road Runner series, in which Wile E. Coyote endlessly pursues the elusive Road Runner. With its streamlined visual style, brilliantly geometric gags, and constant comic invention, the series is a masterpiece of American screen comedy. During the retrospective Chuck Amuck, Jones spoke at length about his life and art. In the tradition of his hero, Mark Twain, Jones was a witty, wry, thoroughly engaging speaker."]

Schubach, Alanna. "The Trouble With True Detective." Jacobin (July 18, 2015) ["rue Detective has plenty of issues, but misogyny isn’t one of them."]

"Branded to Kill," The Projection Booth #108 (April 2, 2013)

Friedman, Uri. "In Defense of Instagramming Conflict in Crimea." The Atlantic (March 7, 2013) ["Ukraine and Russia are facing off over a peninsula where, 160 years ago, war photography was born."]

Mayo, Mike and Edward G. Pettit. "Martin." The Projection Booth (April 9, 2013) ["George Romero's Martin is a remarkable vampire film made at the high point of Romero's career."]

Bailey, Jason. "Beloved ‘Godfather’ and ‘Simpsons’ Co-Star Alex Rocco Has Died." Flavorwire (July 20, 2015)





Ashley, Cameron. "Prime Cut." The Projection Booth #110 (April 16, 2013)

Resources for July 17, 2015

Gemes, Ken. "The Thoughts of Friedrich Nietzsche." Philosophy Now #15 (November 8, 2011)

Greenberg, Jon. "Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from Ferguson to Charleston." Citizenship and Social Justice (July 10, 2015)

"Who Owns the Media." Free Press (Ongoing Archive)





Baron, Richard, Neil Kellard and Tom Rubens. "Global Capiatalism - Good or Bad?" Philosophy Now #16 (November 15, 2011)

Madrigal, Alexis C. "The Sacrificial Landscape of True Detective." The Atlantic (March 7, 2014)

True Detective (HBO: Nic Pizzolatto, 2014 - ) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Khan, Azmat. "Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools." Buzz Feed (July 9, 2015) ["The United States trumpets education as one of its shining successes of the war in Afghanistan. But a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals U.S. claims were often outright lies, as the government peddled numbers it knew to be false and touted schools that have never seen a single student."]

Penn, Arthur. "American Outsiders: The Cinema of Arthur Penn." Pinewood Dialogues (November 11, 1994) ["Bonnie and Clyde, directed by Arthur Penn, was a watershed film that changed the course of American cinema with its playful, reflexive tone, its unflinching depiction of violence, and its sympathetic portrayal of charismatic outlaw heroes. ... the director discussed the critical controversy surrounding the film's release, and the remarkable collaboration that included Warren Beatty as producer and star, and screenwriter Robert Benton. Penn also discusses the art and craft of filmmaking with great insight and detail."]

True Detective (HBO: Nic Pizzolatto, 2014 - )

True Detective (HBO: Nic Pizzolatto, 2014 - )

Booth, Nathan. "The Power of Blackness: True Detective." The Other Journal (May 25, 2014)

Critchley, Simon, Brooke Gladstone and Eugene Thacker. "In the Dust of this Planet." Radiolab (September 8, 2014)

Madrigal, Alexis C. "The Sacrificial Landscape of True Detective." The Atlantic (March 7, 2014)

McFarland, Kevin. "True Detective ends its first season as it began: with two indelible performances." Boing Boing (March 10, 2014)

Schubach, Alanna. "The Trouble With True Detective." Jacobin (July 18, 2015) ["rue Detective has plenty of issues, but misogyny isn’t one of them."]

Sepinwall, Alan. "True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto looks back on season 1." HitFix (March 10, 2014)

St. John, Allan. "How HBO's 'True Detective' Will Change The Way You Watch Television." Forbes (January 13, 2014)

Resources for July 16, 2015

Luban, David. "The APA Scandal." Just Security (July 13, 2015) [On the American Psychological Association's leadership's torture scandal]

Shaviro, Steven. "The New Cinematography." The Pinocchio Theory (March 4, 2014)

Bordwell, David. "Pulverizing plots: Into the woods with Sondheim, Shklovsky, and David O. Russell." Observations on Film Art (March 3, 2014)








Bowen, Chuck. "The Best of the Year's Cinema So Far." Keyframe (July 14, 2015)

Galibert-Laîné, Chloé. "The Human, the Machine and Spike Jonze." Keyframe (July 11, 2015) ["Tracking the evolution of technology and humankind in Spike Jonze films."]

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ― Albert Einstein (1950)

Schefer, Jean-Louis. "On La Jetee." Chris Marker (Originally published for the catalogue of a video exhibition “Passages de l’image” that toured Europe and the United States in 1991 and 1992. Also available as ch. 9 in Schefer, Jean-Louis, The Enigmatic Body, ed. and trans. Paul Smith, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.)

Dallas, Paul. "Lost in Translation: Public Hearing." Filmmaker (March 7, 2014)

Resources for July 14, 2015

In Praise of Chairs from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.

Frankish, Keith. "On the Hard Problem and the Illusion of Qualia." Philosophy Bites (October 11, 2014) ["Subjective experience leads to the so-called 'hard problem' of consciousness: the difficulty of explaining qualia in terms of the brain. Keith Frankish discusses both the problem and a possible solution."]

Swift, Adam. "Parental Partiality." Philosophy Bites (October 27, 2014) ["Most parents want their own children to do well in life. What are the morally acceptable limits on the benefits we can confer on our own children?"]

Cronk, Jordan. "Kelly Reichardt: Genres, Geographies and the Evolution of a Filmmaker." Keyframe (March 4, 2014) ["Where Reichardt’s latest, an elaborate tale of radicalism, eco-terrorism, guilt and paranoia, fits."]

Townes, Carimah. "Why Netflix Shouldn’t Care If White Men Watch Its Newest Sci-Fi Series." Think Progress (July 8, 2015)


“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” -- Frida Kahlo




Adams, John Joseph, Tobias Buckell and Sam J. Miller. "Is Sense8 Too Radical for Critics?" Wired (July 6, 2015)

Timm, Trevor. "Here’s how not to report on the US government’s terror warnings." Columbia Review of Journalism (July 10, 2015)

Hrapkowicz, Błażej. "Kelly Reichardt: Ambiguities." Ketframe (March 5, 2014) ["On bad dreams, political predicaments and fine lines: a master filmmaker speaks on her new project."]

Night Moves (USA: Kelly Reichardt, 2013) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Night Moves (USA: Kelly Reichardt, 2013)

Night Moves (USA: Kelly Reichardt, 2013: 112 mins)

Cronk, Jordan. "Kelly Reichardt: Genres, Geographies and the Evolution of a Filmmaker." Keyframe (March 4, 2014) ["Where Reichardt’s latest, an elaborate tale of radicalism, eco-terrorism, guilt and paranoia, fits."]

Hrapkowicz, Błażej. "Kelly Reichardt: Ambiguities." Ketframe (March 5, 2014) ["On bad dreams, political predicaments and fine lines: a master filmmaker speaks on her new project."]

Littman, Sam. "Great Directors: Kelly Reichardt." Senses of Cinema (June 2014)

Pinn, Marcus, Brian Risselda and Josh Ryan. "Kelly Reichardt." Syndrome and a Cinema #11 (June 28, 2014)

Staab, Laura. "Certain Women and Other Animals: A Symposium on the Cinema of Kelly Reichardt at the British Film Institute, London." Another Gaze (April 14, 2017)

Exercise Guides (Archive)

The Only 30 Yoga Poses You Need to Know (Greatist)

The 21 Best Bodyweight Exercises for a Strong Core (Greatist)

6 Simple Moves to Eliminate Knee Pain for Good (Greatist)

5 Simple Moves to Eliminate Low Back Pain for Good (Greatist)

Butt and Thighs Workout (various)

Resources for July 12, 2015

Williard, David C. "On Teaching the Confederacy." Inside Higher Ed (July 6, 2015)

Martin, James. "Finding God in All Things." On Being (December 18, 2014) ["Before Pope Francis, James Martin was perhaps the best-loved Jesuit in American life. He’s followed the calling of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, to “find God in all things” — and in 21st-century forms. To delve into Fr. Martin's way of being in the world is to discover the "spiritual exercises" St. Ignatius designed to be accessible to everyone more than six centuries ago."]

Hempton, Gordon. "The Last Quiet Places: Silence and the Presence of Everything." On Being (December 25, 2014) ["Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a 'solar-powered jukebox.' Quiet is a 'think tank of the soul.'"]

Johnson, Chalmers. "Sorrow of Empire: Imperialism, Militarism, and the End of the Republic." Asia Papers #19 (2004)

P.S. Hoffman from Caleb Slain on Vimeo.

The Master (USA: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Garfield, Bob. "The Numbers Don't Lie, Except When They Do." On the Media (July 10, 2015) ["the media's sloppy and disingenuous use of polls to fill air time and manufacture conflict."]

Varoufakis, Yanis. "How I Became an Erratic Marxist." The Guardian (February 18, 2015) ["Before he entered politics, Yanis Varoufakis, the iconoclastic Greek finance minister at the centre of the latest eurozone standoff, wrote this searing account of European capitalism and how the left can learn from Marx’s mistakes."]

Cowie, Peter. "Flashback: Alain Resnais." The Current (March 23, 2014)

Chastity, David and Geena Cain. "Monogamy Ruined the Friendzone." David Chastity (February 15, 2015)

Resources for July 10, 2015

Mirk, Sarah. "Female Film Directors Put Together a List of Must-See Movies Made By Women." Bitch (July 8, 2015)





Borstein, Alex, et al. "Hollywood's Missing Directors." Popaganda (June 4, 2015) ["We start off this episode by talking with a lawyer from the ACLU (which recently issued a letter calling for government agencies to investigate Hollywood hiring practices) and talk with filmmaker Destri Martino, who launched The Director List—a brand-new database of hundreds of female directors. We hear from filmmaker Christina Choe about what it’s like to work on indie movies—including her current film Nancy—and from producer, writer, and actress Alex Borstein about her long career working within Hollywood writers' rooms. Plus: the best of Shit People Say to Women Directors."]

Darnton, Robert The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History. Basic Books, 1999.





White, Gillian B. "Why the Gap Between Worker Pay and Productivity Is So Problematic." The Atlantic (February 25, 2015) ["Labor has become more efficient and profitable, but employees aren't sharing in the benefits."]

Postrel, Virginia. "Decoding Glamour." London School for Economics and Political Science (July 2, 2015) ["Drawing on her path-breaking new book, The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, Virginia Postrel cracks the code of this mysterious and surprisingly pervasive phenomenon. She identifies the three essential elements in all forms of glamour and explains how they work to create a distinctive sensation of projection and yearning."]

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "Bodily Safety: On Police Shootings." Making Contact (July 1, 2015) ["When journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates set out to write about police killings he went to visit Mable Jones. Back in 2000, Jones son, a friend of Coates from their time at Howard University, was shot and killed by police in Virginia. He was twenty five years old."]





Kolb, Leigh. "Advantageous Is a Dystopian Sci-Fi About All-Too-Real Beauty Standards." Bitch (July 9, 2015)

Ackerman, Galia, et al. "My Body My Message: Women’s Bodies as Tools of Self-Empowerment." Making Contact (July 8, 2015) ["The female body as medium, and as message. How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself? On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bodies for political protest, and as tools of self-empowerment…forcing everyone to reevaluate their perspectives on the female form."]

Resources for July 9, 2015

Barro, Josh, et al. "Bring Down the Flag." Left, Right and Center (july 3, 2015)

Beck, Julie. "When Sex Ed Discusses Gender Inequality, Sex Gets Safer." The Atlantic (April 27, 2015) ["A new study shows a "striking" difference in effectiveness between programs that address gender and power, and those that don't."]

Zimmer, Carl. "The Rise of the Tick." Outside Magazine (April 30, 2013) ["With incisor-like claws that can tunnel beneath your skin in seconds, ticks are rapidly becoming the world’s scariest purveyors of deadly pathogens. Carl Zimmer walks into the woods to find out why these tiny beasts are skyrocketing in number – and outsmarting scientists with every bite."]

Appignanesi, Lisa, et al. "On Free Speech." London School of Economics & Political Science (June 2, 2015) ["What does it mean to have a right to free speech, and who has the right to curtail it? "]

Temple, Emily. "15 Essays by Female Writers That Everyone Should Read." Flavorwire (February 11, 2013)

"DC's Superman Takes on Police Brutality." Truth Voice (July 4, 2015)

Criado-Perez, Caroline. "Do it Like a Woman: Contemporary feminist activism and How You Can Change the World." London School of Economics and Political Science (June 3, 2015)

Ryan, Christopher and Cacilda Jethá. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. Harper Collins, 2010.

Resources for July 3, 2015

Niose, David. "Anti-intellectualism is Killing America: Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason." Psychology Today (June 20, 2015)

"Clouds of Sils Maria." The Film Stage #138 (April 20, 2015)

"Ex Machina." The Film Stage #139 (April 27, 2015)





Adamson, Peter. "Old Man River: Heraclitus." History of Philosophy without Gaps #5 (December 28, 2010)

McCabe, M.M. "On Heraclitus." History of Philosophy without Gaps #6 (December 30, 2010)

Adamson, Peter. "The Road Less Traveled: Parmenides." History of Philosophy Without any Gaps #7 (January 11, 2011)

"Until the lion has his historian," the African proverb goes, "the hunter will always be a hero."

Williams, Johnny. "Goodfellas." I Was There Too #8 (February 4, 2015)