The medium demands multiple senses, our full attention, tearing us away at least for a few minutes from the relentless multi-tasking that has become our society’s default mode.
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LU | The Un-Banning of TikTok
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Good things have certainly sprung from TikTok — whether you see it as the embarrassment of Trump’s Tulsa rally or the inspiration of watching someone sew a dress from scratch — but so have the sinister parts of its nature. Many point to the app’s addictive design, but for me, it’s the high potential of losing myself in a TikTok reality.
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The New Crown of Battle Royale
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Clumsy yet competitive, casual yet intense, Fall Guys is a wonderful new rendition of the battle royale genre.
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Festival 24 Makes A Virtual Return
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This online version of Festival 24 gave students the chance to participate in theater while on-campus or off, keeping the arts alive despite the pandemic.
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LU | The Consciousness of Displacement
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My cavity is rootlessness — wanting to belong but feeling swept between landscapes and people and rhythms and routines of life.
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PONTIN | Let’s Take Disco Seriously
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Disco thrived on a disruption of the status quo and a total refusal of the value system that prevailed at the time it was created.
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Cornell Concert Commission to Host Indie Rock Band Hippo Campus
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Hippo Campus is also known for their support of the #MeToo movement, having donated to the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota in 2018 via a merchandise drive.
2020
KUDVA DRISKELL | Animal Crossing, Empathy and Campaign Yard Signs
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I don’t love how Animal Crossing, a game focused around building an aesthetically pleasing home and interacting with snappily dressed animals, is now being considered some sort of political frontier.
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Marsupial Lion Invigorates the Ithaca Music Scene
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Marsupial Lion fills the gap between overly chill bedroom pop and new age alternative, harnessing a sound that feels as genuine as it is unique.
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Remembering Chadwick Boseman
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He showed the world the power behind being Black, contributing to the growth of Afrofuturism.
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‘Do What You Want’: An Interview With Bad Religion Frontman and Evolutionist Greg Graffin Ph.D. ’03
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We wanted to write about things that were puzzles of human existence. In that sense, there’s a lot of overlap between human evolution and our style of punk.