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Corecore and the Logic of Montage

“This genre’s title, corecore, makes a totalizing claim on the thousands of balkanized subgenres and subaesthetics that fleet past the user: only a certain set of objects and clips can be dazecore or college dormcore, but corecore encompasses all such ‘cores,’ all these oddly particular aesthetics.”

by Tommy Goulding on March 5, 2023March 5, 2023

The Sunset Art: Thoughts on Photography and Travel

“For Sontag, photography gives the amateur tourist photographer a sense of control— but superficial control. Knowledge— but superficial knowledge. In an unfamiliar, foreign environment the camera offers the illusive feeling of possession and command, in a very real sense empowering the photographer to take something of the place with them as their own.”

by Tommy Goulding on December 4, 2022December 4, 2022

A Trip to the Orangerie

“In many ways my trip thus far had been haunted by Benjamin; every glimpse of the underground Metro lights, the carefully planned streets, the dimly lit bookstores brought some passage, some fragment of prose from his works to mind.”

by Tommy Goulding on November 13, 2022

Telescoping Echo

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “echo” (echo, echo). Lucia Brown At … Read More

by Alexandra Orbuch, Amaya Dressler, Audrey Zhang, Kate Lee, Lara Katz, Lucia Brown, Sierra Stern, Tommy Goulding on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

The Rains of Macondo: Relevance, Our Country Friends, and the Literature of the Pandemic

“The rain described by García Márquez seemed compellingly similar to the virus that had upended my own life and the lives of so many others: impersonal, unrelenting, and showing no sign of ending any time soon.”

by Tommy Goulding on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022


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