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media studies
Last week, Riyadh hosted a comedy festival. I did not attend—let’s call it limited funds. After all, this is the […]
I can’t exactly recall when I watched my last movie on VHS, but the cassette tape once defined my childhood. For kids of the 1980s and 1990s, videotapes were currency—expensive objects that you treasured, rewound, and wore out.
The first time I really knew about NPR was when I was dating someone in college, and they wanted to listen to All Things Considered when we were driving, and I was like, what the fuck is this?
You’re a Marxist rap-metal band and you’re doing a cover of Springsteen’s “Ghost of Tom Joad”? WTF is even happening?
The film Heretic offers a very rare exploration into faith and morality, even though it’s a gruesome horror movie.
The French philosopher Simone Weil once said that “the beauty of the world is like the mouth of […]
Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.