By Yanis Iqbal What is a human being? Poor Things reveals the political stakes of this question by interrogating the… Read more How to Become a Mechanical Monster: Liberation from Tradition in “Poor Things”
Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education
By Olive Demar Malcolm Harris ends his far-reaching book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, with… Read more Shit, Cum, and Milk: On Relating to Institutions of Higher Education
Patriarchal Realism: On The Banshees of Inisherin
By Miranda Mellis The ‘mental health’ epidemic, the depression and anxiety epidemic, the loneliness epidemic. It seems that feelings are… Read more Patriarchal Realism: On The Banshees of Inisherin
Looking Back on Goncharov: Film Culture, Meme Culture, and the Historiographers of Tumblr University
By Payton Alexa McCarty-Simas “But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say, reduced to the signs… Read more Looking Back on Goncharov: Film Culture, Meme Culture, and the Historiographers of Tumblr University
Repress and Reward: Compensatory Heterosexuality and Projections of Upper Caste Women in Indian Film
By Umar Nizarudeen An elderly scion of the erstwhile royal family of Travancore in Kerala recently courted controversy for her suggestion… Read more Repress and Reward: Compensatory Heterosexuality and Projections of Upper Caste Women in Indian Film
“Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema
By Yanis Iqbal Spoilers Alert! In the 2023 film Jawan, actor Shah Rukh Khan takes on the dual roles of… Read more “Jawan”: Reimagining Masculinity in Indian Cinema
Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime
By Johanna Isaacson A few weeks ago I opened The Guardian to find that the voice of my middle-aged generation, Douglas Coupland,… Read more Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime
Barbarian (2022) and the Politics of Dysfluency in Contemporary U.S. American Soundscapes
By Jarred Wiehe Dysfluency haunted the soundscape of American politics in the Autumn of 2022.[1] Prior to the only televised… Read more Barbarian (2022) and the Politics of Dysfluency in Contemporary U.S. American Soundscapes
Barbie: Welcome to the Pink Thunderdome
By Jess Flarity The cultural landscape around Barbie currently ebbs and flows like a kaleidoscopic tide. Everyone (writing reviews) seems… Read more Barbie: Welcome to the Pink Thunderdome
Commoning for Autonomy/Autonomy for the Commons
By Andreas Petrossiants – Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer (eds.), The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization (Common Notions,… Read more Commoning for Autonomy/Autonomy for the Commons