The 7th issue of Analog Cookbook, titled Analog Erotica, looks at sexuality, erotic imagery, and pornography's contributions to radical artistic practices in relation to analog media. Human sexuality is a ubiquitous part of our film culture; magazines, television, books, & the internet. Often used to oppress and objectify the complicated lived ......
Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 6: * "The Allure: or how I shot my directorial debut on 16mm film + some tips for those looking to direct a narrative work on analog" an essay by Joanna Decc * "we breathe each other in and out of existence" an installation by Archer Boyette * "Big Agnes Ascent" a pinhole 16mm film by ......
Essays, films, and other work featured in Analog Cookbook 5: * "@Katsakh" Interview with Chantal Partamian * "Typefilm" Essay by Joao Reynaldo * "Open Source Analog Resources" Interview with Matt McWilliams * "Building an R8 Optical Printer" Guide by Sandy McLennan * "Lights, camera, hair!" Interview with Tristen Ives * "Silver Gelatin ......
Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA co-founder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. In this deeply ......
Women and the Making of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
From its Kingston, Jamaica, inception in 1914, women helped define and shape the Black Nationalist and Pan Africanist aims of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Their efforts, made possible in part by UNIA co-founder Amy Ashwood Garvey, helped sustain the largest social justice organization of the twentieth century. In this deeply ......
How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era
By the Tet Offensive in early 1968, what had been widely heralded as the best qualified, best-trained army in US history was descending into crisis as the Vietnam War raged without end. Morale was tanking. AWOL rates were rising. And in August of that year, a group of Black soldiers seized control of the infamous Long Binh Jail, burned buildings, ......
Douglas Little explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the complex and often inconsistent attitudes and interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam early in the new millennium. After documenting the persistence of ......
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it ......
The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures
The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation-New England is a good example-D. Berton Emerson argues, the same is true for American literature of the nineteenth century; a few canonical texts ......
