A new collection of photography aims to capture the upbeat, joyous side of life in the Arab world, away from war and suffering. Fouad Elkoury talks us through his projectOn 4 August 2020, Fouad Elkoury was sitting in his home in Beirut when an enormous…
SFnal Coordination Mechanism Design, Path Dependence and Roads Not Taken
Glass: the most underrated medieval technology? (threadreader) – “Venice sought desperately to keep its monopoly. If a glassmaker left without permission, he would be asked to return. If he refused, his family would be imprisoned, and if he still persi…
TikTokはいまや芸術運動となった：蘇るシュルレアリストの遊戯「優美な屍骸」
マルセル・デュシャンやアンドレ・ブルトンといったシュルレアリストたちが興じた「優美な屍骸」の遊戯のように、TikTokから次々に生まれるダンスやデュエット、さまざまなチャレンジは、自然発生的なコラボレーションの価値とハプニングを求める点で、新しい芸術運動だといえるだろう。デジタルテクノロジーはいまや、人がアートに関わる機会を増やし、同時に芸術の形態をも変えつつある。ネットワーク化された創造性ははたして何を生み出そうとしているのか。
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映画『DUNE/デューン 砂の惑星』の巨大生物サンドワームは、こうしてつくられた
映画『DUNE/デューン 砂の惑星』には、広大な砂地に生息する巨大生物であるサンドワーム（砂虫）が登場する。監督のドゥニ・ヴィルヌーヴ率いる制作陣は、その圧倒的な存在感をいかに映像と音で表現したのか。その舞台裏をヴィルヌーヴら制作陣が語った。
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Kathleen Stock’s departure shows universities can’t cope with argument | Rachel Cooke
Sadly, the philosopher’s resignation from Sussex is a victory for the bullies and anti-intellectualsHow profoundly depressing to hear that the philosopher Kathleen Stock has effectively been hounded from her chair at Sussex University by the mob. Howev…
Being an only child made me fascinated by siblings – and means I’ve had to learn to share my life
My debut novel is full of the brothers and sisters who were absent though my childhoodPeople often ask me about my brothers and sisters. They have read my debut novel, Girl A, and they expect to find my own family, encrypted in the fiction. There are s…
Passing review – life is anything but black and white in Rebecca Hall’s smart period drama
Ruth Negga is magnetic in Hall’s adaptation of Nella Larsen’s story of race in 1920s HarlemAt a glamorous party in 1920s Harlem, a young black woman and an older white man perch at the edge of a dancefloor. “Can you always tell the difference?” he asks…
Juliet Stevenson: ‘The perception of women of my age is so reductive’
The actor, 65, on growing up in a loving family, recognising her partner, and getting more interesting while the parts she is offered get less interestingMy earliest memory is jumping off a little stone wall in the garden in Australia. I called it my j…
Degrees of separation: what connects Seinfeld to Steve Bannon?
From the US sitcom to the far-right rabble rouser, we go down the rabbit hole, thanks to the arrival of Jerry’s show on NetflixSeinfeldAll 180 episodes of the 90s’ most misanthropic sitcom have arrived on Netflix, but not everyone is happy. Some viewer…
Aisling Bea: ‘I was completely burnt out – I definitely became less nice’
Irish actor Aisling Bea on writing This Way Up in lockdown while filming the new Home Alone movie reboot, women’s inner lives and her abiding love of potato wafflesWhen it comes to comedy, there is little Aisling Bea can’t turn her hand to. After train…