Why is Spielberg’s Lincoln like Pasolini’s Salò? Tune in to find out (or not).
This episode of The Sometime Seminar discusses the Tarantino slave spaghetti Western film Django Unchained.
Related links, reviews and discussions:
Jelani Cobb in The New Yorker
Richard Brody, also in The New Yorker
Stephen Marche in Esquire
A back-and-forth on the film from Big Media Vandalism
The Last Psychiatrist on Django Unchained and politics (among other things)
This episode of The Sometime Seminar is a double-length discussion about the 1944 modernist long poem Trilogy by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
H.D. on Wikipedia
Various critics’ takes on Trilogy
Buy Trilogy from Amazon
This episode of The Sometime Seminar discusses recent developments in online higher education and particularly the MOOC phenomenon/fad.
MOOC companies:
Coursera
Udacity
EdX (nonprofit)
Clay Shirky on Napster and the Academy (Metafilter thread); Inside Higher Ed article on collapse of a Coursera MOOC on how to run a MOOC (Metafilter thread)
In our debut episode, The Sometime Seminar discusses Game of Thrones. Related links and notes:
Laurie Penny on Game of Thrones, “Good King” mythology, and “racist rape-culture Disneyland with dragons” (Metafilter thread and earlier Metafilter thread)
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