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...lecture tour, and he makes an appearance again in “Examined Life”—along with seven other modern thinks, including University of Chicago professor Martha Nussbaum, “Empire” author Michael Hardt, and feminist post-structuralist Judith Butler. Despite her experience, Taylor reveals her anxieties about making philosophical film in a conversation with NYU professor Avital Ronell, the first onscreen thinker after “Matrix Revolutions” celebrity-philosopher Cornel West.Philosophical thinking has traditionally taken place in the written form, which gives both its deliverer and its audience enough...
...dance vignettes based on a performance Biggers presented to the Dalai Lama.It’s no surprise that Biggers has been called a sculptor, a performance artist, a video artist, and an installation artist—or that his art has been qualified as both Dada and post-minimalist. His work consciously eludes labels. It is at once formal and multidisciplinary, static and interactive. “I am interested in making stuff that I, and other people, can’t categorize,” he says. And as Biggers engages the viewer with innovative forms, he asks...
Since it first reared its head in 1977, punk rock hasn’t come in waves so much as infesations, swarms, plagues of cockroaches. When their way of life destabilized (post-punk, new wave, etc.), the faithful foraged underground to found hardcore—itself the ancestor of pop music’s most violent and dissonant iterations. The lineup and the skulls shaking in the crowd may change, but, beyond all hope and all disaster, punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm...
Will, George • lying of is pointed out by reporters at the Washington Post, which published the column containing said lies...
...rescind the rule as early as next week. That has some religious leaders privately grumbling about whether their input is welcome only for those topics on which they agree with the White House. Joel Hunter, an Evangelical pastor and member of Obama's faith advisory council, told the Washington Post that reversing the rule would be "one of those things that kind of says, 'I knew it. They talk about common ground, but what they want is their...