Weekend Reading List
From transgender narratives to the cosmic hum: what to read this weekend
From transgender narratives to the cosmic hum: what to read this weekend
- 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