Articles by Morgan Green

Composing Compassion: On Jumana Manna’s “A Magical Substance Flows Into Me”

by Morgan Green | Nov 29, 2017

Composing Compassion: On Jumana Manna’s “A Magical Substance Flows Into Me”

by Morgan Green | Nov 29, 2017

Jumana Manna’s 2015 film “A magical substance flows into me” weaves together the musical traditions of communities living in and around Jerusalem, undermining the state-sanctioned forgetting of complex cultural contexts.

Automating the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag and Facebook

by Morgan Green | Aug 3, 2017

Automating the Pain of Others: Susan Sontag and Facebook

by Morgan Green | Aug 3, 2017

Writer and artist Morgan Green offers a poignant critique of Facebook’s algorithmic display of violent images.

Looking at Los Angeles

All Objects Are Slippery: Excavations in Santa Barbara County

by Morgan Green | Jun 13, 2017

Looking at Los Angeles

All Objects Are Slippery: Excavations in Santa Barbara County

by Morgan Green | Jun 13, 2017

Morgan Green considers the misleading permanence of objects through an artist project that excavated the remains of the 1923 film “The Ten Commandments.”