BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 29 APR 16

Weekend Reading List

From transgender narratives to the cosmic hum: what to read this weekend

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BY Paul Clinton in Culture Digest | 29 APR 16

  • A new publication aims to put Jonas Mekas’s film criticism back in the picture
     
  • Over at n+1, Anna Wiener gives an account of life as a female worker at a Silicon Valley startup
     
  • When does deconstruction become destruction? Read Geoffrey Bennington’s scathing review of the new translation of Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology (1967)
     
  • Feminist theorist Jacqueline Rose discusses the role of narrative in the struggle for transgender acceptance
     
  • Can you hear that sound? On the science and myth of ‘the Hum’
     
  • On his blog The Weaklings, writer Dennis Cooper celebrates the work of Leslie Thornton
     
  • ‘Reading has become part of looking’ – Orit Gat on the much maligned museum wall text
     
  • Two new films – one on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the other on Eva Hesse – raise questions about the ways in which documentary filmmakers give voice to their subjects

Paul Clinton is a writer, curator and editor based in London, UK. He is a lecturer in curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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