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...course, modern science has made great contributions to our understanding of certain issues. For example, the recently unclassified National Intelligence Council report stating that "the problem of feeding a burgeoning population is not agriculture or science, but rather political stability, transportation and distribution.” Not long ago, this view of the world would have been ridiculed; today, we may call it correct...
Conventional wisdom conflates the modern filmmaker with the modern novelist, as both are assumed to fill the role of storyteller. For the typical moviegoer, it’s understood that a film moves forward on the axis of narrative. Equally fundamental is the notion that the viewer consents to that narrative. For Nathaniel Dorsky—an experimental filmmaker, professional film editor, and film essayist—these rules impose unnecessary constraints on the freedom of the process. Instead, he says, the very idea of the moving image implies a sort of narrative.“Film is a narrative...
...Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard Salient Guy It might be tough to picture the obese, gassy Reilly playing croquet or palling around with Harvard C. Mansfield ’53, but his hilarious anti-modern screeds are stilted and acrimonious enough to fill the Salient’s pages—and maybe even earn him an op-ed column in The Crimson. Character: Roger Mexico—“Gravity’s Rainbow” by Thomas Pynchon Caricature: Public Piss...
...Chan is of the post-post-modern breed of iconoclasts. Whereas the original version wanted the utter annihilation of authority, Chan and his tribe just want to spin it around until it falls on its ass. The Vietnam generation has aged out of vogue, and it turns out that anarchy is unpleasant. Chaos, however...
...Iraq War, presents scenes of the city’s glorious and disturbing heterogeneity in a 51-minute impressionistic jumble. Finally, there’s 5th Light, part of a series of “lights” that call into question the images and rules of modern life...