Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Feb 24th, 2010
The first thing you notice when you step onto the machine is gravity. The floor slowly begins to sink from underneath your feet—the one thing we trust the most has become unstable. The floor is the floor is the floor. You must bring the earth up to greet your body, as if for once you [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 22nd, 2010
Municipal officers take note: what makes a city should not be defined by either population density or sprawl. Have minimum thresholds in these measures, but the first criterion of a city is its modes of circulation. Public transport should be a given, because in urbanity we sacrifice lesser luxuries, such as the personal vehicle and [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 19th, 2010
Bob is gay. Or so I’m led to believe by the crude scrawl on the wall outside my flat (Bob, to his credit, has maintained a dignified silence). Sadly there are still people who think this kind of thing when we use the word graffiti. For them it is something systematic of a crumbling society: a [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 17th, 2010
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice park. I like it just fine. It’s nicely landscaped, has a nice fountain in the middle and a nice jogging track around the perimeter. It also nicely, politely evokes the city’s social priorities. Annette Shelby Park sits at the intersection of one of Tuscaloosa’s primary arteries and another [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 15th, 2010
On the topic of breast feeding, expectant moms are quickly caught between upbringing, aspirations, and the mixed advice of sisters, strangers, and doctors’ office pamphlets. In the 60s and 70s, many American women considered breast feeding an unwelcome chain to their infants, contraindicative of their recent lib. For the current generation, however, being fully female [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 5th, 2010
People who fancy themselves as folk who are engaged in the world at large have an upsetting tendency to deck their children, pets, and messenger bags with political slogans. These accessories are troubling because they usually shut down actual debate of the issues the accessories purport to be for/against. This is because the sporter of [...]
Posted in Reviews on Feb 3rd, 2010
When a train leaves you behind, it is the watching that is most painful. The doors to the platform are already closed, but through the glass you can watch the last silver car pulling away. You watch, because what else can you do? Indeed, it recedes, it shrinks. And as that sight dwindles, what magnifies [...]