Caro « The Hooded Utilitarian

July 10, 2012
By Caro
Blog, Featured
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Not the Spokesman You Are Looking For

David Lowery and the inefficacy of moral shaming.

June 24, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog, Top Featured, Voices from the Archive
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Voices from the Archive: Caroline Small on Ghost World

Ghost World and the unreliable narrator.

January 9, 2012
By Caro
Blog
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Looks like We’re in for Heavy Concepts

A lot of the work that claims to be so “high concept” doesn’t really strike me as actually being all that high concept. It’s more “heavy concept” than “high concept.”

January 8, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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What Does That Even Mean?

Knowledge, hipness, and Dan Clowes in Ghost World.

January 5, 2012
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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The Ants at the Picnic of the Arts

Franklin Einspruch and Caroline Small on Theory vs. Art vs. The Academy

January 4, 2012
By Caro
Blog
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What is so marvelous about this illustration is that it draws from abstraction a kind of conceptual quality without aiming for narrative or semiotics – an embodied, tactile concept dominated by space and sensation.