Tag: violence
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From the globalization protests of the previous decade to the more recent Occupy Movement, activists have embraced the use of digital video. Many appropriations of the technology, including those by human rights advocates, rest on the theory that ‘seeing is believing’ and understand video to be uniquely suited to forms of truth telling such as…
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Hopping like a jackrabbit between genres and media, including forays into the swamps of pop culture, Nelson is strongest when at her most rageful, writing with controlled fury at the anti-intellectualism and crassness of the present. She has no time for fake populism, she’s an unabashed cultural elitist: withering about reality TV, Lars von Trier…
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BOMB Magazine (http://bombmagazine.org/article/10019/matthew-barney-and-gaspar-no)
Matthew Barney: I’ve got another question for you. Why do you think so many brutally violent films are being made in France? Gaspar Noe: In France? Just because they are, or were, easier to finance here, I guess. MB: Is that all? GN: The French are not softer or harder than any other country. There’s…
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Measures have been taken or sought since the fourteenth century to deal with the problem of disorder relating to football – a 1314 proclamation of Edward II declared: “Forasmuch there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid…
Sameer Padania 