To add to my post of the 15th of March, here’s Michael Chanan’s reflection on Third Cinema: http://tinyurl.com/7bvordp
Month: March 2012
Juárez: A dangerous place to be a woman
Sam Hawken The Dead Women of Juárez London: Serpent’s Tail, 2011. *This contains some spoilers* If you want a review without spoilers see, Mrs Peabody’s excellent blogpost: http://mrspeabodyinvestigates.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/17-sam-hawken-the-dead-women-of-juarez/ According to the attorney general’s office in Mexico the number of femicides in Juarez are the following: 18 in 1993; 19 in 1994; 36 in 1995; 37 in…
Gardens, twungles and e-forests
March 29th, 2010 Margaret Atwood wrote about twitter as populated by helpful fairies on the bottom of her garden eager to scold, encourage and correct her (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/mar/29/atwood-in-the-twittersphere/), now it has become a twungle/e-forest with rotating skulls pushing her towards political activism: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/12/deeper-twungle-atwood-twitter/. It’s a great trajectory to read. I have quoted Atwood in my forthcoming article on the use…
Latin American “Third” Cinema and its Legacies
A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford, 9th-10th March 2012, on “third” cinema, was both stimulating and varied. What is “third” cinema? The inverted commas were, no doubt a deliberate acknowledgement of the difficulties involved in using the word “third”, due to its links to third worldism and the first world/third world divide that…
Choices, Choices…
I have to choose from one of the following 6 for the cover of my book:
The discourse of the free
I find open source information and crowd sourcing knowledge compelling ideas. They make knowledge a public good and can have the benefit of being non-hierarchical. The theory is that we all can share, contribute and learn, which is great. The enthusiasm with which the sharing of such knowledge is often discussed can be infectious. I…