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Alerts Harper’s, the director bemoans what he sees as the art of cinema being reduced to its basest commercial elements, at the expense of more serious filmmaking. He rails against the idea of “content” as a term leveling all culture film, pop music, TikToks into a pernicious and false equivalency that removes the “art” from art in favor of the universal ideology of capitalism and consumerism. More personally, he champions curation over algorithms: the combination of passion and expertise that leads to sharing what you love. “An act of generosity,” as he puts it. This is in contrast to algorithms, code that impersonally treats the audience as consumer and the content (as opposed to “content”) of a film as an assemblage of discernible units meaning, if you liked one movie about a tempestuous romantic relationship ( ....
Monday Night Football for his racist comments about Donovan McNabb. He resigned from ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown after making those comments. Due to an editing error, a Feb. 18 Sports misspelled Becky Hammon’s last name and Toni Smith-Thompson’s first name. In a Feb. 16 Sports, Nick Greene misstated that star Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson is recovering from a knee injury. He’s recovering from an Achilles injury. In a Feb. 14 Movies, Dan Kois misidentified the university where Dr. Brian Stork is a clinical professor of urology. He works at the University of Michigan, not Michigan State. In a Feb. 13 Slatest, Jordan Weissmann misidentified ....
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Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Ebony Lamb and Smileus/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Slate has relationships with various online retailers. If you buy something through our links, Slate may earn an affiliate commission. We update links when possible, but note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change. All prices were up to date at the time of publication. In January 2020, I wrote for Slate about the experience of reading The Absolute Book, an epic fantasy by the Wellington, New Zealand, writer Elizabeth Knox. The book seemed so remarkable and so marketable that I couldn’t believe it had no American publisher, so I gave my piece the puckish headline “This New Zealand Fantasy Masterpiece Needs to Be Published in America, Like, Now.” Much to my delight, the essay worked, and on Tuesday the American edition of ....