summer reading: susan tomaselli
By Susan Tomaselli, 3:AM Editor-at-Large; Founder and Editor of gorse @STomaselli I’m grappling with an essay on Antonin Artaud’s disastrous 1937 trip to Ireland for gorse no. 2, so I’m reading my way through as much of his work as I can stand, leaning heavily on the Susan Sontag edited Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings. A […]
Long Pause, Romantic Music, Silence
The goal of subtitles is clear: to cross linguistic and auditory barriers. And to achieve this objective the subtitler must not only translate between languages, but she must convert between entirely separate media… In common with poetry, subtitles at their best show the union of the physical properties of language and its ideal potential… These subtitles are to say, I’m still here. The machine has not broken. Please don’t walk away.
Laura Legge on subtitles, poetics, and silence.