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Masha Tupitsyn
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love: An Addendum to Love Dog, Love Dog, LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film Beauty Talk & Monsters, the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film. In 2015, she completed the film Love Sounds, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She teaches film and gender studies at The New School. Her new film, Time Tells, is forthcoming in 2017.

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The Rights Of Nerves

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September 2016

Masha Tupitsyn

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September 2016

‘I transform “Work” in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real “Work” — of writing.’ — Roland Barthes, Mourning...

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December 2013

When We Were Here: The 1990s in Film

Masha Tupitsyn

Art

December 2013

‘I remember touch. Pictures came with touch.’ -Daft Punk, ‘Touch’   In the 1990s, three important pre post-reality films...

21 April   Imagine a passport to get into the house Trump announces ‘the suspension of immigration, unprecedented measures in the United States’ One morning coffee, Nescafé classic; then another ‘These measures were not even taken during the Second World War’ Flights cancelled in Europe, borders again etc Apparently swallows can stay in the air for up to 10 months without touching down on land A practical system in 2020 At two coffees, the morning begins to have the minimum light required for the head of a living subject Somebody talks about swallowing up the world and then spitting it out No one from outside can come in Anybody is a potential enemy The bunker is an architecture of politics, as of March 2020 Apply the system to each state, then to each city, then to each neighbourhood, then to each house The house: nobody from outside can come in Banning immigration At most, only those from inside can come in But whoever is inside can’t come in, that would be too stupid, they’re inside already Passport shown outside, at the window, to be able to get the door open Jastrow’s ambiguous figure: the look is deceptive If you look to the left you see a duck; if you look to the right, a rabbit There’s not much point Oktoberfest beer festival cancelled Pope postpones World Youth Day to 2023 And petrol sold this Monday at negative prices The whole mix of new stories of the highest and lowest importance at a great gallop is a kind of censorship through speed Speed covers up with the advantage of seeming to show What is important is not covered or hidden: it is just putting speed into the legs or the motor of what is important so that it’s quickly off the stage How many dead today and what was the final score in the match? 2-0? A video of Bob Dylan

Contributor

August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn

Contributor

August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love:...

Love Dog

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July 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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July 2013

11 22 2011 – LOVE DOG     For months Hamlet has been floating around. Its book covers popping up everywhere. Non sequitur references...
Famous Tombs: Love in the 90s

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February 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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February 2013

‘However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—’ Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll   I. BEGINNING   I was a pre-teen when...

READ NEXT

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Issue No. 18

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 18

This is the editorial from the eighteenth print issue of The White Review, available to buy here.    In 1991...

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September 2012

Existere: Documenting Performance Art

David Gothard

Jo Melvin

John James

Rye Dag Holmboe

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September 2012

The following conversation was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in May 2012. The event took place...

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Issue No. 15

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 15

In The Art of the Publisher, Roberto Calasso suggests that publishing is something approaching an art form, whereby ‘all...

 

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