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...observer effect, but the viewer never gets a glimpse behind the band’s indie cutesy-pie veneer, and it always seems like the band members are performing scripted roles.Even these roles are equivocal. Butler comes off as, alternately, a revival preacher and wild-eyed revolutionary; either way, he exudes a scary amount of solemn zeal. His wife, multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne, gets some face time too—during which she never seems quite hinged, exactly. But for the most part, unless you really know the band members coming in, they remain mostly anonymous, faceless.That...
...unable to completely release himself into the meaningful randomness of Dada. Instead, his “Guide,” comes across more confused than absurd. Codrescu offers the reader “Dada” as mankind’s salvation but never actually hands it over in either a practiced or studied form. According to Codrescu, we need to be rattled from our current “posthumanity”—a state of being ruled too much by reason and not enough by human vigor. We are posthumans because we live through technology, because...
...they understood technology?” RISING THROUGH THE RANKS When Murray arrived at MIT, she says she was one of only three women in her physics class out of approximately 100 students—but that didn’t faze her. “At MIT you either hate it or you love it,” Murray says. “And I absolutely loved it.”Murray took readily to the experimental demands of applied physics, completing her senior thesis studying excitations in superfluid helium with physics professor Thomas J. Greytak, a difficult project...
...sort of self-destructive loop of formation-creation-disbandment to avoid unwanted attention and the anathema of a “signature sound.” The idea of success is alien to punk rock, and simply not present in the lexicon. Bands that move forward—either creatively or commercially—must disown, and are disowned by, the localized and often incestuous punk communities they come from. But there’s a third direction, a direction that Portland indie-punks the Thermals have turned to with their fourth album...
...design, has opened “Connections,” its most current exhibition at MIT’s Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery. “Metropath(ologies),” one installation of the exhibit, reveals the way in which individuals increasingly interact with technology—either deliberately or unwillingly, and sometimes even unwittingly.“‘Metropath(ologies)’ is interactive, but it gets away from the kind of interactive art that is more like a puppet piece—the ones where you see it and you wave your...