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Well, Fox Television has done it again. In their long tradition of cultivating exciting, innovative programming and then cancelling it, they have reportedly just pulled the ax on the new comedy Kitchen Confidential, which careful kinemapoetics readers will remember I lauded as one of the best new shows this year. Confidential, a laughtrackless sitcom in…
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The HFR issue with the best art, the best cover, and the most stirring special section (“Gender Boundaries”) is now online. I mentioned it a few weeks ago when it was published. Folks, do not miss this issue. The special section is amazing, featuring art, poetry and an interview Sarah Vap and I did with…
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“With writing, we have second chances.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated There might be more on this later.
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I wrote last time about how rejection is a natural response to art by both artists and by the community. Since rejection is predicated on a value relationship, I’m interested in writing more about the nature of value in terms of art. Because Americans are raised in a capitalist culture, we are taught from an…
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I’ve been thinking lately about rejection. Recently I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about rejection of aesthetic. For a while, there was a lot of New Sincerity controversy surrounding its perceived (implied?) rejection of a post-avant aesthetic or the “aesthetic of irony.” Emily’s recent link to a discussion of Mary Oliver poem and…
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“I’m still big! It’s the pictures that got smaller!”
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