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Body & Mind

Dead Weight by Emmeline Clein conveys the simple terror and intoxicating asceticism of anorexia

March 4, 2024 • by Josephine Houman

“I watched my body shrink in the mirror,” Clein writes, “proud to discover how powerful my mind was.” I know the feeling....

Music

Taylor Swift: The Modest Proposal

Finitude, in 63 parts

February 28, 2024 • by Rick Moody

And so the working hypothesis of this proposal is: that only art with an awareness of finitude constitutes meaningful composition. ...

Music

It isn’t Taylor Swift who is queer: it’s us

February 28, 2024 • by Claire Potter

It is the queerness of fandom, not the artist, that helps us understand Taylor Swift better. ...

Music

Taylor Swift, the Modern Alcibiades

We think we know who the pop star is. But does Plato know better?

February 27, 2024 • by Jack Condie

Much ink has been spilled on whether she’s a feminist hero or ruthless capitalist villain. I think she’s a modern day Alcibiades. ...

Music

A symposium on a theologico-political phenomenon

February 27, 2024 • by Jack Condie, Simon Critchley, Gwenda-lin Grewal and James Miller

In this Taylor Swift symposium, New School philosophers and critical theorists dissect the mysteries of the pop star....

Film & Performing Arts

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

The genre-bending drama challenges the white workplace

February 26, 2024 • by Kelby Clark

Based on the bestselling novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl dissects the horror of insidious racism in white workplaces...

Horror and Humor in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl

Film & Performing Arts

American Fiction Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists

Director Cord Jefferson tackles Percival Everett’s 2001, novel Erasure

February 12, 2024 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is garnering praise this awards season for its satirical approach to Black representation...

American Fiction Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists

Activism

Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon

A conversation with the director of a new streaming platform dedicated to global majority filmmakers

December 19, 2023 • by Rehana Esmail and Kate Millar

Cinelogue hosts a library of films that have been carefully selected by international filmmakers and curators from diverse regional foci....

Cinelogue Is Decolonizing the Film Canon

Film & Performing Arts

What Are We to Make of Lars von Trier?

The Idiots, the controversial Danish director’s most controversial film, reconsidered

December 19, 2023 • by Emma Slack-Jørgensen

In Denmark, von Trier is both ridiculed and cherished—at best he is terminally misunderstood and at worst a national laughing stock. Yet the Danish director meets his most critical audience within the very film festivals that have showcased his work. ...

Film & Performing Arts

On “Slow Cinema”

Does this contemporary movement represent a gentle resistance to the values of contemporary society—or a surrender to elitist aesthetics?

December 18, 2023 • by Bella Okuya

A thoughtful reflection on the unique allure of "slow cinema", its impact on audiences, and the intriguing debate it sparks about cultural representation and elitism. ...

Film & Performing Arts

Netflix Revives the Genre of the “Blaxploitation” Film to Attract Black Subscribers

They Cloned Tyrone tries to turn the colonization of Black Americans into a LOL comedy

December 18, 2023 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

As a genre, Blaxploitation films were often morally ambiguous: though made for and by Black filmmakers and audiences, and sometimes depicting a kind of dead-end domestic colonialism, the films often normalized misogynistic treatment of Black women and uncritical ideals of Black capitalism....

Netflix Revives the Genre of the “Blaxploitation” Film to Attract Black Subscribers

Film & Performing Arts

Singer-Songwriter Indigo de Souza on Death and the Beauty of Life

Only in accepting our mortality can we begin to infuse our lives with purpose

December 13, 2023 • by Robert Noble

The opening track of de Souza’s first album is titled “How I Get Myself Killed.” It’s a straightforward indie-rock cut, with a simple chord progression and cathartic release. “This is probably how I get myself killed,” she repeats in the chorus’s refrain. It’s unclear exactly what she is referring to. ...