We live in the best of times in which we are able to learn about the world and its incredible diversity of cultures/beings/places/perspectives in a way never historically possible. We live in the worst of times when we are able to isolate ourselves completely from anything different from our own narrow view/conception of the world/reality. The choice is yours!
Monday, April 22, 2019
Dialogic Cinephilia - April 22, 2019
Ayers, Drew R. "Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination." Department of Communication Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2012.
Bady, Aaron. "Game of Thrones: 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.'" Los Angeles Review of Books (April 22, 2019)
Citizenfour (USA/Germany/UK: Laura Poitras, 2014: 114 mins) ["In January 2013, film-maker Laura Poitras received an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who called himself Citizen Four. In it, he offered her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the NSA and other intelligence agencies. Poitras had already been working for several years on a film about mass surveillance programs in the United States, and so in June 2013, she went to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger, who identified himself as Edward Snowden. She was met there by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill. Several other meetings followed. Citizenfour is based on the recordings from these meetings. What follows is the largest confirmations of mass surveillance using official documents themselves, the world has never seen…"]
Game of Thrones (HBO TV Series: David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 2011 - ) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Hasan, Mehdi. "When Christians Are Under Attack, Muslims and the Left Need to Defend Them." The Intercept (April 22, 2019)
Like Someone in Love (France/Japan: Abbas Kiarostami, 2012) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
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