A Public Humanities Project
The following poem is inspired by Jack Cronin’s photograph. This poem seeks to engage in and explore ideas on analog, nature, ways of looking, and the Anthropocene. It is intended to be read alongside the photograph featured both above and Read More …
In a nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie opens on an apparently primordial desert landscape, where a few bored-looking girls play with porcelain babies as a narrator describes the history of dolls in voice-over. A shadow falls Read More …
Ferrania, originally the Italian company Società Italiana Prodotti Esplodenti (SIPE), began in 1882 as a factory that produced nitrocellulose-based explosive powders. When demand for this powder decreased following the “Red Terror” in Soviet Russia, the factory turned toward producing celluloid, Read More …
On July 21st, I went to see Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer in IMAX at the Michigan Science Center. The film is a fast-paced set of interwoven narratives that tell the story of historical figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of Read More …