Friends. “What are they?!” That’s the question posed in Yasmina Reza’s 1994 play ‘Art,‘ dramatically re-imagined in a recent off-Broadway production at FIAF‘s Florence Gould Hall. Co-produced by the Netherlands-based experimental theatre collectives tg STAN and Dood Paard, the revival transferred to New York as a part of FIAF’s annual Crossing the Line Festival, which presents international (primarily French […]
When I first heard about the accusations being levied against Brett Kavanaugh I wasn’t shocked. I wish I were. I wish a Supreme Court nominee being accused of sexual assault was surprising. I wish that I were shaken by the fact that he was being defended by the GOP. But I’m jaded. This is just […]
“Immortality is accomplished by creating consciousness in self-replicating machines that can be distributed throughout the cosmos.”—Bina48, social android. I first learned about Bina48 at a conference I attended earlier this year called Vision and Technology: Toward a More Just Future. It was here that transdisciplinary artist, Stephanie Dinkins, discussed an ongoing art project in which […]
This semester, I’m taking a class on Elegy, a genre which discusses and explores how we lament for the dead. One of my English professors discusses Lycidas, in detail, and laments how, if anything, Milton gets away with making something so beautiful and yet remains impersonal. Sometimes I want to hand over my iPod and say, […]
I know I’ve probably lost some of you (or induced some level of rage) with the title of this article so, if you’re still here, I appreciate it. I’m not here to tell you that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a bad game. It isn’t. And I understand that The Legend […]
The phasing out of plastic straws has quickly become a trending environmental topic we need to adopt as our earth bears the brunt of human impact. We are learning more and more about how human behavior associated with mass production and consumption is directly linked to climate change. But oftentimes, there is a missing link and we […]
I’m constantly grateful for living in the #MeToo age. Every day I’m blown away by the bravery and strength of courageous women who risk their careers and their privacy to show the world that actions have consequences and no one should be above the law. We’ve seen prominent men, from Bill Cosby to Harvey Weinstein, […]
When I want to understand the internet, I turn to science fiction. Not for details of artificial intelligence or scientific accuracy, but for the writer’s ability to construct new worlds while exploring complex questions of existence. When Octavia Butler, who many refer to as the “godmother of Afrofuturism” was asked why she chose the genre, […]
Do you hate critics? You’re not the only one. As the field of theatre criticism continues to shrink, the remaining theatre critics (and by critics, I don’t mean bloggers) are now under intense scrutiny. However, while theatre reviews have been met with increased skepticism over the past few years, they can still wield enormous power […]
Sorting is the ordering of objects in a list, with emphasis on “ordering.” We often instinctively associate sorting with alphabetizing—and this is only natural because hearing our name read out from an alphabetically-arranged list is one of our first exposures to the concept of sorting. However, one can order items by date, size, location, etc. […]
