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Sherry B. Ortner has emphasized “bridge making between theoretical and methodological divisions within anthropology.”
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillWhen I’m working on other projects, as a diversion I like to read about the great anthropologists of our time. I recently came across Fifty Key Anthropologists (2011). The blurb (I have added italics to the title) at the Toronto Public Library website for the book notes: “Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some […]
Updates to previous post regarding Machine in Garden aesthetic of factory design
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillA previous post about the Machine in the Garden aesthetic of factory design included a large number of updates. For ease in reading of the original post, I’ve removed the updates and have included them (below) as a separate post: A May 8, 2021 New York Times article is entitled: “Seeing the Real Faces of […]
The Technique of Film Editing (1968) is a classic text for film students
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe following text is based upon a previous post entitled Drug Wars (2013) updates. It focuses and enlarges upon themes related to editing, contextualization, and management of attention and emotional response in accordance with principles of instrumental reason in a machine in the garden era. Film history We are dealing with history, and its conceptualization. Heritage […]
History of film editing – Reisz and Millar (1968)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan PillThe Technique of Film Editing, Second Edition (1968) is a classic text by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar that is read even now by film students. It’s a useful resource for anybody interested in how stories are put together, and how life is viewed and experienced, then and now. Because I’m currently taking a film editing […]
The concept of a networked society is appealing but has limitations
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillSome time ago I across a formulation by Manuel Castells asserting that the city is everywhere and in everything. I’m also familiar with his comment that scandal is the epitome of politics. A book entitled How law knows (2007), in which Mariana Valverde speaks of actor network theory, has helped me to understand potential limitations […]
Peter Hall’s (2002) intellectual history of twentieth-century urban planning
/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillPeter Hall focuses, in Cities of tomorrow: An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, third edition (2002), on the power of ideas. Hall is also author of London voices, London lives: Tales from a working capital (2007), in which Londoners speaks of their lives in their own voices. In his […]