Spectre: A Review | Michael Leonberger
How can one seriously advocate a love of James Bond in 2016? The martini-swilling, tuxedo-sporting, murderous womanizer of the Cold War is now made up in the popular imagination as equal parts...
Review: Push Pull: A visual analysis | Nia Burks
The first viewing of Push Pull by Purity Ring is reminiscent of a figurative interpretation of the abstract minimalist aesthetic that has defined much of the iOS7 and later mobile vernacular. Complete...
Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (2015) | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
I had a dream David Bowie taught us how to skateboard But he was shaped like Gumby -Cyrus, “Twinkle Song” There is something great about the image of tweens at a Miley...
On Fuckery: How Art Basel Miami Beach is just like all of your shitty relationships | Nia Burks
Just Leave. We’ve all been there, maybe even multiple times. Thinking back, you saw the signs all along. You know the excruciatingly familiar predicament of walking away confused one too many times....
Cloud Burst: A Review of Brian K. Vaughan’s Futuristic Comic Noir, The Private Eye
When I picked up the latest Microsoft Office suite, I found that it came with a whopping 1TB of storage in OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service. I was already using it through...
Reviews: The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure | Hana Aoake and Mya Middleton
It was dark, so dark, so claustrophobic and there were too many bodies. It was overwhelming. I might have accidentally touched the bum of a revered WMA. I stamped on someone’s Nikes,...
On Queer/Feminist Sound & the Digital Archive | Charles Eppley
Over the past several years, there has been a sonic awakening. The study of sound and its effects on knowledge, identity, culture, and history has risen dramatically within both existing academic fields...
Masturbating alone, together: A review of Escargotesque or, What is Experience? By M.H. Bowker (Punctum Books, 2015) | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
“When there are no bathrooms, no bedrooms, no rooms of any kind, you have to masturbate during ‘showers,’ … hiding behind the largest tree in the yard,” writes M.H. Bowker, recounting...
Let’s Play: The Shining | Norberto Gomez, Jr.
The world of popular gaming mirrors the development of Hollywood action films: grandiose attempts at virtuality, holograms, and 3-D fantasies, with non-stop violence, misogyny, and the overuse of traditional, linear narratives...
Going Clear: A Review
Before I even begin, I have to give the “Church” of Scientology some credit. I really do. In the year 2015, with literally billions of people connected to the Internet in SOME...