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Current issue · No. 02
What Moves Us?
Culture, Emotion, and the Lives We Make
Seven essays on fear, language, performance, the changing body, cultural memory, creative participation, and watching together.
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7 of 7 readings
- 01Fear & playRead
The Pleasure of Being Afraid
A Halloween ticket buys an encounter with fear. The terms of the encounter help explain the pleasure.
- 02Language & belongingRead
What Changes When We Change Languages?
The words may travel more easily than the relationship carried inside them.
- 03Art, work & lawRead
When Your Voice Keeps Working Without You
Digital performance makes an old question newly urgent: what, exactly, did the performer agree to?
- 04Body & emotionRead
The Body Has Its Own Calendar
During the menopause transition, taking mood seriously requires attention to both biology and the life around it.
- 05Film & cultural memoryRead
What Our Monsters Remember
Two films ask what happens when a household is expected to go on living around an unacknowledged loss.
- 06Arts & everyday lifeRead
The Right to Be an Amateur
Creative opportunity includes the chance to keep making something that will never become a career.
- 07Culture & public lifeRead
What Happens When We Watch Together?
A cinema audience can change a film's experience without agreeing on what it means.