The Screen as Primary Reality You are lying in bed at eleven on a Tuesday night, thumb moving in a gesture so practiced it has
The Profile as Ontological Act You spend forty minutes choosing the photograph. Not because you are vain — or not only — but because something
The Absurd as Diagnostic Tool You are sitting at a table during a job interview, and the interviewer asks you to describe yourself as a
The Man Who Lost His Hand and Found His Pen He comes back from the sea with one hand and no money, and nobody is
Italian cinema has always had a visceral and complex relationship with eroticism. The collective imagination is marked by an era of “scandal,” by films that
The Hand Before the Concept You are holding a piece of wood that is not yet anything. Your hands move across the grain the way
The Object That Refuses to Decorate You walk into the atrium and it stops you before you have decided to stop. It is not beautiful,
The Frozen Instant as Philosophical Provocation You are standing in front of a small silver plate, not much larger than your palm, and the man
The City as Aesthetic Trap You step off the vaporetto and the city does something to your balance. It is not the motion of the
The Myth of the Solitary Genius You are alone in a cold room, staring at a canvas that has not moved in three days, and
The Chemistry of Irreversibility You pour the collodion onto the glass plate and you have maybe eight minutes. Not eight minutes as a metaphor, not
The Mythology of the Open Floor Plan You are sitting in a room full of strangers who are all pretending, with great concentration, not to
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