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Microcosmos & the Artifice of Nature Documentaries | Lost in the Archive

Microcosmos & the Artifice of Nature Documentaries | Lost in the Archive

This video discusses the 1996 French documentary about insects and other small creatures, Microcosmos. I present this film as an example of how nature documentaries are highly manipulated, though due to the film’s lack of narration and the way it conceptualizes its subjects as performers, I ultimately suggest the film offers an alternate approach to […]

Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive

Long-listed, Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year, 2024 “Powerhouse narrating duo Michael Kramer and Kate Reading bring their outstanding skills to this stunning continuation of the Stormlight Archive series… This audiobook is truly a masterpiece of story and performance.” —AudioFile on Rhythm of War (Earphones Award winner) […]

Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)

A gorgeous hardcover time capsule of the emo music scene as it was from 1996 to 2006, featuring never-before-seen photographs and never-before-told stories from key emo musicians, photographers, and icons. While the term emo has become a familiar label, there was a time when that wasn’t the case. Many bands […]

The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive, Book 1

From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, book one of the Stormlight Archive, begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion. Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they […]

The Dark Vault: Unlock the Archive (The Archived)

Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Mackenzie Bishop’s grandfather first brought her here […]

Archive

ARCHIVE is the story of George, a research engineer working at the experimental end of Artificial Intelligence. He works for a company which has perfected technology to save a person’s consciousness after death in an Archive. When his wife, Jules, is killed in an accident, he works clandestinely to create […]