Author: Alex Lopez
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Scientists Love Him, Politicians Hate Him: Mickey 17
In our unfortunate world where the mere inclusion of the word “diversity” on a form gets the funding of universities cut, where the mention of any POC or gender minority gets scrubbed from official records, and when the only innovation that has cross-market appeal is turning basic services into subscription-based models where you get less…
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Something In The Air: The Fly
Some may say watching The Fly on Valentine’s Day is a mistake on many levels. Some may say the body horror is unromantic, some may say Stathis Borans’ character is a gross man, even grosser than the Fly, and some may have expected Jeff Goldblum to portray a suave and classy scientist, only to be…
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The Machine Of The American Dream: The Brutalist
The Cambridge Dictionary defines Brutalism as “a building style in which buildings are large and heavy-looking, and often made from concrete”. From my semester-long class History of Architecture that I took eons ago, I find this definition shallow and clunky. It misses the essence of the movement. Brutalist architecture came around after the end of…