The plight of those working in the delivery/driver economy has been in the news a lot. E-bikes going at high speeds causing fatal car crashes, employees getting ridiculously low pay and no insurance–what was hyped as a great new job for people only a few years ago has quickly become just another late capitalist strategy for squeezing ever more labor out of workers for...

We were told in Film History 101 that spectators who first saw the Lumière brothers' 1896 film of a train rushing forward ("Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat") scared the audience, who thought it was going to leap from the screen and hit them. Turns out this didn't really happen. We were also told that it took a long time for audiences to...