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The headless gentleman
Image: Un homme de têtes (The Four Troublesome Heads), Georges Méliès, 1898. Screen grab by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi. There is a story about an English colonial administrator, who, during the first...
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Drones are paranoid androids
I wrote a fairly long post at The New Inquiry on drone subjectivity and robotic engineering. Because of the quantity of margin notes, I apologetically direct your attention there rather than attempt a...
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Machines of loving grace
Image adapted from Magnus Carlsson’s music video for Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ (1997). Designed by Imp Kerr. The New Inquiry‘s latest publication is called ‘Game of Drones’ (Volume 6), edited by...
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That buzzing sound
Image by the Montgomeryshire Beekeepers Association. My long-form piece on drones called ‘Paranoid Androids’ is featured on The New Inquiry today. (As mentioned before, it was released in their...
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Army realness from NATO to NBC
This first appeared at The New Inquiry. It has since been featured at Salon. Stars Earn Stripes is a freshly pressed NBC drag show reality television series which debuts its two-hour premiere on 13...
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“Healthy” nationalism?
The following is a guest post by Linnéa Hussein. It first appeared at The New Inquiry. Olympia by Riefenstahl, Berlin 1936. Source: Fahey/Klein Gallery. Opening Ceremony, Olympic Summer Games, London...
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Militarytainment
Still from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. A week before the premiere of Stars Earn Stripes I wrote a post called Army Realness from NATO to NBC. It didn’t occur to me that the show would make much of...
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Repetition without difference
The following is a guest post by Elliott Prasse-Freeman. It first appeared at The New Inquiry. ‘Transform: Slit-Scan,’ from Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture by Casey Reas, Chandler...
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My two dads
This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Every few years we get to play a part in choosing the national Daddy. I see your Tiger mom and raise you an Eagle dad. _____ I’ve held several jobs considered...
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Forging North-South (neck)ties
This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Official embassy correspondence from Iranian diplomat Ardeshir Zahedi and the embassies of Singapore, Austria, and Rhodesia. 1978. Image from Belog. ‘In the late...
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Infinite jestice
This first appeared at The New Inquiry. Photo of Abderrahman Anwar al-Awlaki. Unattributed source. The Disposition Matrix Yesterday witnessed arguably the most substantial journalistic investigation...
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Mr. Kristof and his hugs
Still image from Adam Curtis’ ‘Learning to Hug,’ BBC Blogs. Pontificating on solutions to poverty (best read in all-caps: SOLUTIONS TO POVERTY) is a familiar topic of the New York Times mélange of...
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A country torn: the Cicero March, 1966
From the Chicago Film Archives FilmGroup Collection, ‘Urban Crisis and the New Militants Series.’ First viewed in 16mm at Terror & the Inhuman: Magic Lantern Cinema, curated by Beth Capper....
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Repeating faces
“I’ve just seen a face, I can’t forget the time or place.” —John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “I’ve Just Seen a Face” The physiognomy of the human face confers particularity and evidence of a singular...
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Cinema Guantánamo
No-charge, first-run feature films screened on 35mm for Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base prison guards, troops, and their families (not detainees) by the Movie Program at GTMO (‘A phenomenal place to be,...
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