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March 17, 2011

Profane Illumination: Rick Poynor on Surrealism and the Visual Unconscious

Slicing Open the Eyeball. Live, now, on Thought Catalog: My interview with the visual-culture critic Rick Poynor. And I quote: “More than just the preeminent commentator on the social role and cultural politics of graphic design in contemporary culture, the English cultural critic Rick Poynor is our most reliable dashboard navigator through the visual landscape, […]

January 25, 2007

The Eyes Have It: Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen on the “Science of First Impressions”

Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen at home, NYC, 2006. Photo: Yoko Inoue. © Yoko Inoue. From my December 2006 ID magazine Q&A with the authors. (In its December 2006 issue, ID magazine ran my interview with Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen, two of our most incisive thinkers about the politics of images and the social history […]

March 14, 2006

The Leisure of the Theory Class: Academy Hacking with McKenzie Wark

In another life, the Australian media theorist and cultural critic McKenzie Wark was (in his words) a “lapsed Marxist in the pay of Rupert Murdoch”; his provocative column, which ran for nine years in The Australian newspaper, was an Improvised Exploding Device in the salons of the Australian intelligentsia, inflicting collateral damage on–and inspiring fiery […]

June 2, 2005

Read Zeppelin: Davis Does Zoso

Erik Davis: hermenaut; bearded Led Zep exegete. Photo: Mindstates II website. In Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3/ Continuum International Publishing Group), Erik Davis manages the neat trick of making Robert Plant’s cosmic-dirthead lyrics sound like outtakes from The Mabinogion. (This, remember, is the man whose idea of rock poesy is “I got my flower/ I […]

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Profane Illumination: Rick Poynor on Surrealism and the Visual Unconscious

The Eyes Have It: Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen on the “Science of First Impressions”

The Leisure of the Theory Class: Academy Hacking with McKenzie Wark

Read Zeppelin: Davis Does Zoso

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