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PETER KOHALMI via Getty Images Read on Le Huffington Post While it might be Laszlo Nemes' only film, The Son of Saul will suffice to leave its mark on cinematic history. A film about extermination which uses a wide-angled lens and wide shots ought to have been obscene. Claude Lanzmann knows that,…

Let me be blunt: Subtlety sucks. This statement might anger you. Most of us take for granted that subtlety, in the arts, is a virtue. You can see it in our critical language: It’s common to say that a book or movie lacks subtlety—the implication being that subtlety is an essential quality. Other…

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EMMA DONOGHUE’S 2010 novel Room seemed like it was made for me. After all, Room — a formally inventive story about domesticity and sexuality — falls into a category of books I love; what’s more, Room asks us to perform the politically important task of closely examining women’s experiences of all…

Pārpublicējumi Foto - Daina Geidmane, dailesteatris.lv 2015. gada 4. novembrī Izdrukas versija Pauls Timrots: Nomirt var jebkurā brīdī Ar izrādes " Svēta lieta " režisoru Paulu Timrotu sarunājās interneta žurnāla "Satori" galvenais redaktors Ilmārs Šlāpins. Pārpublicējums no dailesteatris.lv .…

Foto: no personīgā arhīva Vēsturnieks, Ņujorkas Universitātes profesors Lerijs Vulfs šīgada pavasarī viesojās Rīgā, kur uzstājās ar referātu Latvijas Nacionālās bibliotēkas konferencē Starp patiesību un varu . Viņa referāts bija veltīts Austrumeiropas jēdzienam kā teorētiskam un vēsturiskam…

Focus Features The marketing materials for Suffragette have included not just a series of unfortunate t-shirts , but also a series of Banksy-esque posters. One of them, set against a hot-pink background, features a smart phone thrust into the air by a hand that, judging by the hot-pink nail polish…

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Par rakstu krājumu Tulkojot atsauces. Nesenās pagātnes nospiedumi postsociālisma reģionā (LLMC, 2015) Sastapt neseno pagātni var visapkārt, tā nemaz nav pazudusi, tikai mainījusi sejas, pielaikojot jaunas politiskās maskas vai veidojot biezu grimma kārtu, lai plašās masas nepamanītu vecuma klātbūtni…

U.S. troops guarding suspected members of the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada during the Urgent Fury invasion of the island after a Marxist coup. Matthew Naythons/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images American troops who hit the beaches on the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada exactly 30 years ago…

Par Latvijas Atmodas laiku līderi Daini Īvānu tapusi dokumentālā filma, bet jaunieši ielās nezina, kas viņš tāds Kadrs no jaunās filmas "Īvāns" - Danis Īvāns LTF muzejā pie sava tautfrontieša džempera. Publicitātes foto , Agnija Antanoviča 30.oktobris 2015 16:31 Nosūtīt "Dzirdēts ir, bet nemācēšu…

Attēlā - "Par nesankcionētu publisku lūgšanos Rīgā musulmaņu kopienai draud sods" (Tvnet.lv) 2015. gada 29. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Kārlis Vērpe: Patvēruma meklētāju sarunas II – valoda, kurā redzam Jau kādu laiku teju katrā darbdienas apgaitā es Rīgas pieturās, autobusos, veikalos un pat…

Dependency diagram (Image via TheDailyWTF) This is what ugly code looks like. This is a dependency diagram—a graphic representation of interdependence or coupling (the black lines) between software components (the gray dots) within a program. A high degree of interdependence means that changing one…

The current issue of The Word magazine includes my review of Jake Kinzey’s broadside against hipsters, The Sacred and the Profane. The magazine version was edited down from a longer draft which, with The Word’s permission, I’ve decided to publish here: Just before Christmas a blogger at NPR posted a…

Economists call things “Veblen goods” when they violate standard models of supply and demand—mainly in cases when an ongoing spike in price works, perversely, to increase demand. Veblen goods are usually luxuries, or at least luxury versions of goods that might be considered necessities in general.…

AN ABRASIVE MIND invites strenuous disapproval. So it is that Paul Ryan has had to disavow Ayn Rand: repeatedly, unreservedly, and, above all else, entirely. “I reject her philosophy,” he told the National Review during the 2012 campaign. “It’s an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions…

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Atlantico: 30 сентября Владимир Путин ответил на просьбу о «военной помощи», которую озвучил в тот же день Башар Асад. Эти военные действия противоречат позиции США и Европейского Союза. Некоторые западные политики приветствовали решение о вмешательстве, но действительно ли Владимир Путин такой…

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Brian Taylor for The Chronicle Review A recent issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine offers a promising feature : "Guilty (and not-so-guilty) reads of the Yale faculty: What your professors read when nobody’s watching." It’s a potentially juicy idea that yielded disappointingly tepid results. The…

T he philosopher Markus Gabriel is something of a wunderkind. Six years ago, at the tender age of 29, he was appointed to his current position as a professor of philosophy and chair of epistemology at the University of Bonn, making him the youngest holder of a philosophy chair in Germany. He is also…

Deutsches Historiches Museum/Arne Psille/Art Resource Heinrich Lukas Arnold: The Reading Room , circa 1840 Of the many institutions suffering through the world’s metamorphosis from analog to digital (real to virtual, offline to online), few are as beleaguered as that bedrock of our culture, the…

Product Description Paperback, 142 pages ISBN: 0-85345-825-1 Released: January 1976 Most of us have been taught to think of Christopher Columbus as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to “discover” the Americas. In this beautifully written revisionist biography,…

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Владимир Путин выступил на итоговом заседании Международного клуба «Валдай» по теме этого года – «Война и мир: человек, государство и угроза большого конфликта в XXI веке». «Валдайские речи» президента обычно программные, их ждут с интересом. Всем запомнилось его прошлогоднее выступление, когда он…

Recenzija Attēlā – režisors, producents un festivāla "Artdocfest" prezidents Vitālijs Manskis 2015. gada 22. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Svens Kuzmins: Skats no nepareizās puses Par filmu festivāla "Artdocfest" dokumentālo filmu programmu , kas tiek demonstrēta Rīgas Starptautiskā kinofestivāla…

Recenzija 2015. gada 21. oktobrī Izdrukas versija Marta Martinsone: Mums jāsmejas kopā Recenzija par Džeda Apatova filmu "Draiskule" ("Trainwreck", 2015) Senajos pusaudžu gados es biju pavisam neglīta un resna, un klasesbiedri par to mani stipri apsmēja – kā jau piedien elitārās centra skolās, kas…

Seated on my sofa, Meriem narrated her life story. I stopped her on occasion to be sure I wasn’t misunderstanding her Moroccan Arabic. “Your childhood boyfriend raped you?” I asked. I repeated the word she had used, which I assumed meant “rape.” She nodded while I looked it up in my dictionary,…

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