Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895) The Lumière Brothers
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The Kiss (1896) William Heise
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Modern Failure
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The Fall 2014 version of my Modern Revolution course came out of the work of my dissertation, Broken: Thought-Images of Life in the State of Exception. The third chapter of that work, “Failure,” sketched out the outlines of a theory of modern failure. What can it mean to think modernism as failure? While it certainly […]
Haunted Reflections: Walter Benjamin in San Francisco
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Brian Eno, Chris Cutler, and John Oswald on the Technological Reproducibility of Music
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The essays by Eno and Cutler are seminal. I am also including Oswald’s essay. These are from an Anthology, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Cox and Warner. Brian Eno, “The Studio as Compositional Tool,” John Oswald, “Bettered by the Borrower: The Ethics of Musical Debt,” and “Plunderphonia” by Chris Cutler Audio Culture.PDF
Georges Méliès — Le voyage à travers l’Impossible
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