Reconsiderations

Shortly before his death this year, the film theoretician, P. Adams Sitney, significantly revised one of his earliest articles on avant-garde cinema and submitted it to Logos. In its first iteration, the article provided one of the first attempts to chart the currents of avant-garde cinema at a point when the movement thriving. This revised version’s…

Spirituality Calls bell hooks sought the transcendent. She was and remains a spiritualist, perhaps more so than a “Black feminist.” At the September 24, 2022, Philadelphia “Inaugural Bell Hooks Symposium” keynote panel, prominent Black feminists asserted that hooks’ critique of “heteropatriarchy” was her greatest contribution. In an interview, philosopher George Yancy asks bell hooks to explain…

Twenty years ago, Thomas de Zengotita’s Mediated: How Media Shapes the World and the Way You Live in it described a society reeling from explosive technological advances. Humanity’s escalating conquest of nature clashed head-on with deep-seated beliefs about natural order, creating a disconcerting sense of alienation amidst an overabundance of media, control and information. The…

There is a famous scene in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace in which Countess Natasha Rostova, recently betrothed and enjoying the last days of youth, goes with her brothers to the rustic home of a distant relative—or “Uncle,” as they call him—after a long and exhilarating day of hunting.  Slender and graceful, Natasha cuts a…