This is Rhizome Today for Monday, November 24, 2014.
Rhizome Today is an experiment in ephemeral blogging: a series of posts that are written hastily in response to current events, and taken offline within a day or so. The latest post can always be found at http://www.rhizome.org/today.
One of my favorite parts in Chop Suey is this short animation featuring the moon. He seems at first to be world-weary and slightly menacing—he tells the little girls he can look into their bedroom and see their dreams—but his benevolence also shows through. People have talked about the sophistication of Theresa Duncan's writing about perfume, and I think this clip offers some sense of how sensorial her use of language was. I started to pull out some extracts, but I'd rather you just watch the video, tbh.
This morning, we're 15% of the way to our $20,000 goal to make Chop Suey and two other Theresa Duncan CD-ROMs available for free online. Please support this project today!