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shadycharacters.co.uk
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| | | | | [AI summary] The seventh post in a series on obscure computing history introduces the addiator, a simple pocket-sized calculating device from the 1930s that used sliding metal strips to perform arithmetic. | |
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cal.lib.virginia.edu
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www.openculture.com
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| | | | | There may be no more a macabrely misogynistic sentence in English literature than Edgar Allan Poe's contention that "the death... of a beautiful woman" is "unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." (Hisperhaps ironic observation prompted Sylvia Plath to write, over a hundred years later, "The woman is perfected / Her dead / Body wears the smile of accomplishment.")The sentence comes from Poe's 1846 essay "The Philosophy of Composition," and if this work were only known for its literary fetishization of what Elisabeth Bronfen calls "an aesthetically pleasing corpse'-marking deep anxieties about both "female sexuality and decay"-then it would indeed still be of interest to feminists and academics, though not perhaps to the average reader. Open Cult... | |
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silentlondon.co.uk
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| | | This is an extended version of the catalogue essay I wrote for Pirmoji Banga 2022, currently taking place in Vilnius, Lithuania. The famous phrase attributed to Charlie Chaplin offers a devastating summary of He Who Gets Slapped(1924): "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot." Victor Sjöström's film examines what... | ||
