American Re-Education | Ciarán Short
Ciarán Short’s, American Re-Education (2022) video piece explores the representation of Blackness across popular media. The featured images are “digitally altered using glitch aesthetics...
There’s No Place Like Home: How An April Fool’s Joke Became A Social Movement Created By, And For, The Masses
“There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something....
Our American Way
While Woodrow Wilson might not have actually said that The Birth of a Nation was like history written in lightning, he is definitely responsible...
Operator, Well Could You Help Me Place This Call?
Phone: [ring ring] You: Well, I don’t recognize this number, but it’s a local area code. I should probably answer it. “Hello?” Phone: [silence]...
Our American Song
While Woodrow Wilson might not have actually said that The Birth of a Nation was like history written in lightning, he is definitely responsible...
Fear and Loathing in GTA V: Where the Wave Broke
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught,” Hunter Thompson wrote in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in...
Our American Monster
So much of this year has felt like the thing from the grave. Just a rotting monster pulling itself out of the crypt, skin...
The Face of Terror
Our cultural homogeny is one of those happy myths historians gravitate to. The spinal column that any history of a place is based upon,...
Isn’t It Ironic?
For the record… According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of irony is: “the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think...
The Evolution of Convenience, From Blockbuster to #NetflixAndChill
Some of my fondest childhood memories involved going to Blockbuster with my dad after school. At our local branch, there was a large board...