A Symposium on Soundtracks
Aug 1 2018
The piece of music I have in mind lasts only forty-five seconds, which is shockingly brief measured against the inner world it evokes. In what I now know is a fragmentary ...
Selected Symposia
Jun 30, 2018
A Symposium on Monsters
In the two hundred years since Mary Shelley brought it to life, the name Frankenstein has become synonymous with ethically questionable creations, scientific hubris, and the ...
Apr 1, 2018
A Symposium on Lies
If you walk through the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland today and hear a baby crying behind a bush, it’s plausible that you’ll look and find no infant marooned there in the ...
Feb 8, 2018
A Symposium on Weather
Last March, the World Meteorological Organization put out its first new edition of the International Cloud Atlas in thirty years. The first edition, published in 1896, was ...
Jan 6, 2018
A Symposium on The Point of Art
There’s a 2010 commercial for the BlackBerry Torch that retells Moby-Dick through a stream of websites, social media posts, and video clips. It opens optimistically, with a ...
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A Symposium on Monsters
Various
Jun 30 2018
In the two hundred years since Mary Shelley brought it to life, the name Frankenstein has become synonymous with ethically questionable creations, scientific hubris, and the ...
A Symposium on Lies
Various
Apr 1 2018
If you walk through the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland today and hear a baby crying behind a bush, it’s plausible that you’ll look and find no infant marooned there in the ...
A Symposium on Weather
Various
Feb 8 2018
Last March, the World Meteorological Organization put out its first new edition of the International Cloud Atlas in thirty years. The first edition, published in 1896, was ...
A Symposium on The Point of Art
Various
Jan 6 2018
There’s a 2010 commercial for the BlackBerry Torch that retells Moby-Dick through a stream of websites, social media posts, and video clips. It opens optimistically, with a ...
A Symposium on Repetition
Various
Nov 20 2017
All poetry depends on repetition. Line breaks recur; rhymes repeat sounds. Poetic devices from anaphora to zeugma reuse words, meanings, and lines. The promise of novelty ...
A Symposium on Unreliable Songwriters
Various
Sep 1 2017
In 1998, Maverick Records engaged a market-research company to collaborate on a promotional plan for Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, the highly anticipated sophomore album ...
A Symposium on Silence
Various
Aug 19 2015
Almost a century ago, artists told stories of proletarian struggle in “wordless novels,” woodcut sequences heavy on allegory and moral triumph in the face of oppression so ...
We All See the Polar Bear Dying
Donna Kozloskie
Jul 1 2015
Every time I take my birth-control pill, I think about the ozone layer. As a child raised in the early ’90s, when scientists were shouting, “Hairspray makes Earth hot!” and ...
