Eric Wertheimer – The Telegraphed Republic: Semaphores and the New Executive
by Eric Wertheimer
This essay has been peer-reviewed by the boundary 2 editorial collective.
Paris is quiet and the good citizens are content.
—Napoleon Bonaparte’s first message delivered...
Mark Lipovetsky – A Culture of Zero Gravity
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (PublicAffairs, 2014)
Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures...
David Tomkins – Assuming Control: Spielberg Rewires Ready Player One
by David Tomkins
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Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel Ready Player One (2011) envisions a future ravaged by war, climate change, famine, and disease in which most...
Arne De Boever – Naked Painting (On the Work of Becky...
by Arne De Boever
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Becky Kolsrud does not paint nudes.
In “Bather With Red Shoes” (2018), for example, the red parts—the shoes, the nailpolish, and the...
