Moments In Flow

Tag: film

  • The Fraction of a Second: How a Sub-100 Millisecond Lag Became a Caste System

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    The exclusion is real, and the explanation is not where people look The exclusion of darker-toned people from the position of the desired, the individuated, and the fully human is one of the most documented facts in the social sciences and one of the least explained. The usual explanations are moral, economic, or historical. They…

  • Soft Power, the Comet Tail, and the Festival Loop

    Let’s begin. Here is a proposition that sounds like a conspiracy theory and is, in fact, the boring consensus of every serious scholar of cultural diplomacy: soft power is an emergent apparatus of the state, and its delivery agents are brands, institutions, and franchises. Joseph Nye coined the term and defined it with surgical precision.…