Allison, Keith. "Shvitz & the City & the City." The Cultural Gutter (November 23, 2017) ["Inspired by human absurdities like East and West Berlin, The City & The City is a meditation on the illogic of national borders,divided neighbors, and bureaucracy. In the context of late 2017, it’s also easy to read into a prescient look at the perceived deep, uncrossable social and political divide that has arisen in the United States of Donald Trump, the Britain of Brexit, the continuing division of North and South Korea, and the rise of divisive tribalism and a religious-style zealotry that seems to be sweeping much of the world."]
Fernandez, Toniann. "White Man On a Pedestal." Paris Review (November 29, 2017)
Frost, Amber A'Lee. "The Precocious Socialist." The Baffler (November 29, 2017) ["High school is a noise opera of capitalist blathering. It gets better, sort of . . ."]
Lembcke, Jerry. "The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester." The New York Times (October 13, 2017)
Cinemark theater screened this Disney World advertisement (opportunistic selling of images of veterans as a means of promoting/selling a corporate image) right before Thor: Ragnarok last night (after a long series of other militarized ads/promotions). It is not only corporate propaganda, but it also perpetuating a repeatedly disabused cultural lie (across many cultures) - the myth of people spitting on returning veterans. Furthermore, the advertisement is riddled with other obvious falsities/distortions. The represented veteran claims in the advertisement for Disney World that no one welcomed him home (the unspoken claim is that Disney World is the only entity that welcomes returning veterans like him). Can you really believe "no one" welcomed him home in a hyper-militaristic country (even in the aftermath of our invasion and occupation of Vietnam)? I wonder how his family feels about this advertisement for Disney World (if no one welcomed him they would be included in that claim)?
Lilygren, Deena. Takei or Not Takei - When Our Own Offend." LEO Weekly (November 29, 2017)
Mahan, William. "Ghosts and their Prices: Surveillance and Image Economies in Christian Petzold’s Cinema." Senses of Cinema #84 (September 2017) ["This essay examines Christian Petzold’s lesser-known, early films of the 90s in their depiction of the German economy’s impact on individuals’ image-perception and then takes up his better-known film Die innere Sicherheit (The State I Am In, 2000) to trace a change in what can be thought of as image economies. It considers Petzold’s use of surveillance footage in the representation of images which are ascribed value and exchanged in economies that at times come up against relationships of solidarity between characters. While Petzold’s early films Pilotinnen (Pilots, 1995) and Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) depict the struggle and exploitation of female workers within the German economy as well as the solidarity formed in the resistance against these forces, Petzold shifts in the early 2000s in The State I Am In to a larger scale examination of surveillance image economies that extend to the state. The film follows a family with presumed historical ties to the RAF, attempting in the present to remain under the radar. Once again, Petzold investigates relationships of solidarity threatened by image economies, though now with an eye directed towards the transfer of data to and use of surveillance footage by the state. Petzold’s trajectory appears to suggest an increasingly depersonalised society in general, (re)affirming Jonathan Beller’s argument for the increasing gravity of the image for both society and individuals. In addition, Petzold seems to addend Beller’s notions of proto-images and exploitation with a hopeful possibility that, ultimately, humans can win out over these forces through maintained solidarity."]
Merler, Sylvia. "The Republican Tax Plan." Bruegel (November 27, 2017) ["As the Trump administration’s tax plan continues its way through the legislature, we review economists’ and commentators’ recent opinions on the matter."]
Rosen, David. "Century of the National Security State: A New Subversives List." Counterpunch (November 29, 2017)
Westneat, Danny. "This City Hall Brought To You By Amazon." Seattle Times (November 24, 2017)
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