Double Exposure (3)
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Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done… SO DEMANDS THE protagonist of Matthew Arnold’s 1852 […]
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Watch the watchmen, critique the critics, épater les savants.
Cold War of the Ancients and the Moderns
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FROM THE STRUGGLE between Cartesian science and the Classics lampooned by Jonathan Swift in his “Battle of the Books,” to the “Two Cultures” argument of physicist and novelist C. P. Snow, to the “nonoverlapping magisteria” […]
Read This PostAnd we lived beneath the waves
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Psychedelic revelations about the artificial nature of reality
Read This PostQuatschwatch (1)
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OUR READERS already know that HILOBROW has a problem with — in fact, an animus against — quatsch. As of today, we’re going to start fighting back against its reign of terror. Building on my […]
Read This PostMy Wes Anderson Problem — And Ours
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WES ANDERSON’S Bottle Rocket (1996) raised the hopes of hilobrows everywhere, and his Rushmore (1998) fulfilled those hopes in spades. So what happened? Anderson once knew how to get a great performance out of his […]
Read This PostWild Things
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WHY DO WE go to the woods, where the wild things are? Because it’s where the wild things are. Lars von Trier’s forthcoming film ANTICHRIST will debut at Cannes this May. Von Trier may be […]
Read This PostI’M HEAVY, & YOU’RE NOT MY BROTHER
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“You called the tune of irony from the first time you met me.”
Read This PostHilobrow pinups (2)
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Some of our ideas about hilobrow found their first expression elsewhere. Here’s an item that was published — in a slightly different version — at the blog Brainiac on 10/24/06. The October issue of Elle […]
Read This PostHilobrow Pinup
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Long Island, Summer of 1954 — what’s that hardcover book that Marilyn is reading? Daphne du Maurier’s Mary Anne? Irving Stone’s Love is Eternal? Can’t… quite… make it out. Can we zoom in, please? Oh!
Read This PostBloodsucking Middlebrow Critics
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National Geographic News reports that the skull of a plague victim unearthed near Venice exhibits an unmistakable hallmark of treatment for vampirism. The woman’s mouth was forced open by a brick — a measure that […]
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