Genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the New World.
Podcast: Edward Dimendberg, “Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O’Neill’s The Decay of Fiction”
Los Angeles artist and special effects virtuoso Pat O’Neill filmed The Decay of Fiction (2002) in the landmark Ambassador Hotel, once the center of Hollywood celebrity culture. His film blurs the boundaries between architectural investigation, urban documentation, and aesthetic exploration.
Podcast and video: “Youth and Civic Engagement”
The current generation of young citizens is growing up in an age of unprecedented access to information. Will this change their understanding of democracy? What factors will shape their involvement in the political process?
Podcast: “Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”
A conversation between Yochai Benkler and Cass Sunstein, two of the most thoughtful and influential writers on the promise and the perils of the Internet Age.
Podcast: Gregory Anderson, “The Show Business High Wire Act: Walking the Tightrope Between Studio Filmmaking and Independent Production”
Gregory Anderson, creator of Stomp the Yard, has been called a trailblazer for independent film distribution.
Podcast: “Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)”
Wu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy.
Podcast: A Talk with Denis Dyack
Dennis Dyack is a noted authority on interactive software development and offers valuable insight into the process of designing next-generation games that appeal to the masses.
