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Reel to Reel: Is “Content” So Different From Edison’s Early Cinema?
The churn is relentless. The demand, insatiable. The output, rushed and raw but undeniably compelling. Working with cutting-edge communications devices, a rotating cast of tinkerers comes together each day to produce new pieces of short-form visual entertainment, racing to keep up with an attention economy that demands new thrills, new sensations, new captured moments that, often enough, go on to permeate the wider culture. Sometimes, these snippets of footage simply isolate and examine something universal from real life; other times, they tell a story. Naturally, there are collaborations with commercial interests and guest appearances from celebrities hoping for a quick […]
by Jordan Hoffman on Apr 27, 2026 -
Girlblogging: For Girls, By Girls (Girls on Film)
Girlblogging is the online expression of a certain kind of girlhood: a condition not strictly defined by youth or gender, but—per the French theory collective Tiqqun in Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl—the quality of being “the model citizen as redefined by consumer society.” The lace and ribbons are just bells and whistles. At its core, girlhood is the aesthetic of the unequal power-relation. The Young-Girl who constructs reactions and critiques, the girlblogger, manages to be both the consummate consumer and the consummate consumer good. Though she is wounded by them, she derives a certain pleasure from the […]
by Matilda Lin Berke on Jun 5, 2023
