Filmmaker Astra Taylor, who directed the brilliant documentary Žižek!, has a new documentary out now called Examined Life.
"Examined Life takes philosophy out of the darkened corners of academia and into the hustle and bustle of the everyday...through fascinating “walks” with philosophers through places that hold special resonance for them and their ideas -- crowded city streets, deser ted alleyways, Central Park and even a garbage dump...it features the "rock star" philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum."
Here's a trailer:
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Listen to Ben Lerner read from his upcoming book Mean Free Path. It is deadly.
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Photography by Blimpa:
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Michael Bodel discusses Sonambula, "an amalgam of puppets, contraptions, and choreography that delves into the eventual reduction of everything to nothing, underscored by arias from Bellini's mysterious opera."
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Bookthug has just reissued Steve McCaffery's Every Way Oakly, a homolinguistic translation of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.
Dear Secret Santa, I would love this book.
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I enjoyed these two prose pieces in Issue 1 of Willow Wept Review:
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William Gaddis gets a burst of press, thanks to Jimmy Chen and John Lingan.
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Dutch artist Leo Kogan:
