Ziad Shihab

Showing all posts tagged "Media"

Paper Rose - Araz Eleyasian

October 27th, 2023

tutoring the teacherby Douglas MesserliTalin Agon and Araz Eleyasian (screenplay), Araz Eleyasian (director) The Paper Rose / 2018 [9 minutes]A very frustrated English teacher, Toni (Bronte Pearce) is nervous about her day in school. She’s teaching Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, a book she clearly loves. But when we see the antics of her students, each spending the classroom time sending text messages to the others when they’re not taunting the quiet Johnny (Damian Hempstead), we compre...

Interacting with Print

January 3rd, 2023

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

Continue Reading

How to Become a World Historical Figure (Péladan's Dream)

July 6th, 2022

This is a guest post by an IRL friend of mine who wishes to go by the pen name Matryoshka X—you can email him at matryoshka.x11@gmail.com with comments, criticisms, etc. I would also like to note that I have changed the domain name of the blog to www.secretorum.life (my previous domain, rogersbacon.substack.com, forwards to this address automatically now). I. Introduction Erik Hoel writes the following in reference to Roger’s Bacon’s ...

JB - Jeder Baum - Every tree

December 6th, 2021

See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021

Continue Reading