Lasting just over an hour, Goodbye to Language consists of what I can only describe as an excruciating series of tawdry audio, visual and textual snippets stitched together in the most random way possible.
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KOSEMATOGLU | Recommendations of the Week
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Are you tired of reading about the French Revolution for the 18th time since high school for your classes? Or perhaps you are in a Spotify slump, where all your songs seem a little overplayed? I want to provide a few recommendations that may give you some hope and happiness after the rough couple of weeks we’ve had.
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CHARI | On “Coraline”, Self-Reflection and Our Favorite Childhood Media
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I got my first tattoo last year. It is a small button, only slightly larger than a quarter. When consulting with the artist, I specified that I wanted a button with four holes in it, like in Coraline. “Oh, you also want one of that movie?” He gestured over to a heavily tattooed man sitting in the front of the shop. “Jake, show her your leg.” Jake (I think his name was Jake, I honestly don’t remember) pulled up his left pant leg to reveal a full color portrait of Coraline’s titular protagonist, complete with blue hair and the top of her yellow raincoat.
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PONTIN | Is Less Really More?
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For me, scrolling through Netflix typically follows something of a pattern. I’ll spend about 20 minutes looking for something new to catch my eye, then make a last ditch effort to understand why people enjoy Gilmore Girls, quickly turn it off and then enter the uncharted waters of the documentaries section.
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PONTIN | Where Can I Learn to Surf Around Here?
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There is so much indescribable depth, lyrically and compositionally, in the prolific works of the Beach Boys.
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PONTIN | Le Chocolat Viennois and the Parisian Café Soundtrack
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If you’ve ever had the privilege of visiting Paris, I’d be willing to bet that you enjoyed a bite to eat — or at least stopped by — one of two quintessentially Parisian cafés: Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore.
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GREENE | “Greek Life is American Life” in Andrew Moisey’s ‘The American Fraternity’
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Moisey does not want the walls of the American fraternity to be torn down; they would rebuild themselves. He wants them turned to glass.
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GREENE | Todd Hido’s “Interiors”
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I hope that Hido’s photographs make students think about the low-lit and ugly forms of private life experienced on and off this campus.
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YANG | How Can I Live Without You, My Critics?
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I was terrified that the final chapter of Rewiring Technoculture wouldn’t do justice to my original vision.
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PONTIN | Here We Come A-Caroling
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Holiday music seems like the perfect place to start; Christmas caroling is a tradition that has been largely foregone in the name of mass-produced, chart-topping radio hits. These days, finding anything other than an Amazon package at your doorstep is typically an unwelcome sight — salespeople seeking to rope you into a knife-selling pyramid scheme, religious zealots looking to share their views on salvation or flyers from a local political representative urging their stance on the education budget.
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PONTIN | Goodnight Moon
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What could be more peaceful and more innocent than the process of wishing goodnight to the very fixture of nighttime itself, without whom our night sky would remain stuck in a perpetual state of new moon?