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Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Gotham City | Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

By Slavoj Žižek. Exclusive on Boitempo’s Blog. Para a versão em português, clique aqui. Warning: the following article contains spoilers of The Dark Knight Trilogy. …
PUBLISHED: Aug. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4457 words)

The Electric Typewriter

A Tetw reading list The Blind Man Who Learned To See by Michael Finkel - A fascinating profile of a man who is helping other blind people to see using echolocation. Mixed Feelings by…

The Electric Typewriter

7th Mar A Tetw reading list The Female Body by Margaret Atwood - Beautiful mental snapshots, stunningly crafted by a master of the essay form. A Thin Line Between Mother and…

Seduction Therapy: Can Men Be Treated by Female Psychiatrists?

My girlfriend argued no man could be treated by a female therapist because complications due to sexual desire would impede every discussion One night less than two years ago, intoxicated on cheap…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1343 words)

How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Autumn 2011

New York’s biggest borough has reinvented itself as a postindustrial hot spot. In 1982, I moved with my husband and our two young children into a partly renovated brownstone in Park Slope,…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4648 words)

States of Design 06: In your face

In the mid-1980s, a new revolution spurred by the Macintosh home computer, introduced in 1984, took Crouwel's experiment further. A novel aesthetic, supported by the ability…

The Demands of Cold Blood

L'Atlas, Cosmos. Courtesy of the…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3444 words)

The Second Second Date Story

So the way my father used to tell it, my parents second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1861 words)

A Layperson's Guide to Graphic Design

This is an edited transcript of a radio broadcast by Adrian Shaughnessy aired as part of the London-based radio station Resonance FMs Free University of the Airwaves. Shaughnessy had 30 minutes to…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3610 words)
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