This piece reconsiders the importance and impact of pandemic’s preventive discourses on existing language-scapes in society. During the COVID-19 pandemic, institutionalised
anglophone paradigms of health and illness are central to defining any form of normality and abnormality, and it is time to take the defining role of language seriously. [...]
Ce billet est une version abrégée (mais illustrée !) de la première partie de la communication « Le bonheur en procès », faite dans le cadre de la journée d’études
« Les lieux du bonheur, approches littéraires », organisé par le Centre Jean Bodin de l’Université d’Angers, qui s’est tenu à la Maison des Sciences [...]
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. – Amores Perros (2001) First, the good news: The Brooklyn Rail has a wonderful interview with the great Imi Knoebel (go
straight to page 42). Definitely worth the read. This past week also marked 19 years since Joey Ramone’s death, and, happily, it also marked 40 years since Iron [...]
Not surprisingly, the AAMD has just stated that given the Coronavirus and it’s devastating financial proginy, they’re ok with museums selling off artworks and using those
proceeds for “operating expenses.” [...]
Known as Mia, the woman was shown sitting in a serene landscape of lakes and woods. That landscape remains on the Minnesota cooperative’s packaging, but Mia is nowhere
to be found. On some packaging she is replaced by photos of Land O’Lakes member farmers. [...]
Hello, readers. We hope that you and your loved ones are all staying safe (and sane?!) during these odd and testing times. In this month’s #events post, we’ve pulled up
a list of online events that you can attend while on confinement with a child on a knee and the kettle on. [...]
A New York judge has ruled that publisher Activision isn’t infringing AM General’s trademark by featuring Humvees in its Call of Duty series. The decision, handed down
a few weeks ago, is a mark in favor of game developers depicting actual military equipment to create a sense of realism. [...]
While this list is appreciated, it also lacks at least two art projects by Swiss artist, Christoph Büchel. Certainly the decade-old fiasco initiated by the Massachusetts Museum
of Contemporary Art against Büchel has to rank in the top 10, if not top 5. Some of you may be old enough to remember that Mass MoCA sued Büchel in federal court [...]
New seasons of Ozark and Money Heist are back on Netflix. That’s prob the most important and exciting thing to happen since Judd’s wooden boxes (sorry, objects).Hope you
all are hanging in there during these “unprecedented” times (probably the most overused word of the 21st Century). [...]
Luckily, there’s a straightforward solution: provisional licenses, allowing those who graduated from law school in the last year and who were scheduled to take the July
2020 bar exam, to practice law for a defined — and relatively limited — period, such as until the July 2022 bar exam releases its results. [...]
