Magic makes theater of the most banal objects: a wooden board is used to contact the dead, a discarded possession becomes the conduit for a hex. One challenge for “Language of the Birds,” a survey of …
In Athens hundreds of buildings lie abandoned, but rarely unused. Some bear scrawled and stenciled reactions to Greece’s economic crisis; others accommodate people made homeless by it. The city’s cult…
“Though the production structures of television originate the television discourse,” Stuart Hall once argued, “they do not constitute a closed system. They draw topics, treatments, agendas, events, pe…