Your Lightsaber is a Terrible Idea: Reflections on the Collected Wisdom of the Internet
The teaser trailer for the seventh Star Wars movie hit the internet the day after Thanksgiving. As expected, it unleashed a torrent of commentary...
An Academic Breakdown | Francesca Lyn
You up? It’s 2am in Richmond, Virginia and I’m freaking out. My roommate is asleep and the city is starting to get too quiet....
Me and My Game Over
Whenever I go for a run, I think about video games. I don’t day dream about them. I don’t think about which ones I’d...
Every Breath You Take
In the wake of the Ferguson debacle, there has been an outpouring of support in favor of on-duty officers wearing body cameras. It makes...
Digital Life, the Eternal Now, and the End of Linear Time
You’ve seen it happen. A photo from years ago suddenly appears on social media with a new comment, and the original poster wonders why...
Netflix Killed the Movie Star
Netflix recently announced a major deal with Adam Sandler to release four movies on its streaming platforms the same day as its big-screen premiere....
Checking our blind spots: Hollaback and a topography of street harassment | Emily Miller
A few weeks ago, I was walking with a friend down a very crowded street when a man launched into telling her how beautiful...
Generation Me
“Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” – Bruce Springsteen Apparently, the millennials are growing up....
An Ode to the Tangible
Despite my status as a “postgraduate researcher,” I had never experienced microfilm until this afternoon. For those who don’t know, microfilm is a form...
Abject Thoughts | Kenta Murakami
I’m sort of writing my thesis inside out. Although it’ll ultimately be about art history, I’m thinking about it in terms of schools of thoughts,...