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...hiding them in a basement. Instead, we’re adding our blog posts, reports of athletic successes, and drunken party photos alike into an enormous network of carefully catalogued, redundant, and disaster-resistant libraries, each standing at the ready for researchers down the road, be they academicians or curious teenagers, to query. Our relationship with the future has never been nearly this close before.Digitization of archives such as the Crimson’s has accelerated this process a bit by making it retroactive, and as such allows us a small taste of what’s to come. Much...
...DIED. VILGOT SJ?MAN, 81, maverick Swedish film director and prot?g? of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...
...there was also a surprising sameness and insularity to my students. When I assigned them an essay on fear, they wrote touchingly but similarly of death and aging, depression and eating disorders. Similar too was their lack of curiosity. When I asked them to list five people they were curious about, most could not come up with better answers than the jocks and girls they had crushes on, or Britney Spears and Eminem...
...teach writing and literature in America is, to me, to teach my students to be curious about people who are different from them. Indeed, one of the great pleasures of my life in America has been to befriend such a variety of others?from a woman raised as a Hasidic Jew to a black Southerner who, until his 20s, had never eaten with a white person. An openness to others is, of course, equally key for nations. For centuries, China paid dearly for its determination to close itself off from the outside world. Today, with China emerging as a more...
DIED. Vilgot Sjoman, 81, maverick Swedish film director and protégé of Ingmar Bergman whose taboo-challenging, sexually explicit 1967 film I Am Curious (Yellow) was briefly banned by U.S. censors before going on to become the most profitable foreign film in America until 1994, when Like Water for Chocolate broke the record; in Stockholm...