PATSY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (14)

NIGHT LIFE

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By Will Groff

CHROMATIC SUBLIME

10 Radium Age art works in which the use of color evokes awe-inspiring scientific and technological breakthroughs.

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By Joshua Glenn

15th
Jan

Captain Beefheart

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART (Don Van Vliet, born 1941) is — like Thelonious Monk or Alfred Jarry — an artist who describes a world a few...
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By Lucy Sante

14th
Jan

No Soap, Radio

Should we throw out the babes with the bathwater? After unplugging them of course. But perhaps the uncanny devil is in the details. Maybe...
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By Peggy Nelson

14th
Jan

Slick Rick

The most enduring recording of SLICK RICK (Richard Walters, aka MC Ricky D and Rick the Ruler, born 1965) is probably his guest appearance...
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By Douglas Wolk

13th
Jan

Paul Feyerabend

He defamiliarized science rather than taming it.
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By Tim Carmody

12th
Jan

Willis: Walking Thru Walls

While watching Die Hard the other night — one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years — I kept thinking about...
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By Geoff Manaugh

12th
Jan

In Search of Strategically-Placed Sensors

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his...
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By Matthew Battles

12th
Jan

The Book is a Weapon (13)

Ellen (Gene Tierney) reads to Richard (Cornel Wilde) from his own (middlebrow) novel, Time Without End, shortly after meeting him on a train, in...
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By HILOBROW

12th
Jan

Emmanuel Levinas

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By Mark Kingwell