By Johanna Isaacson The Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted two baffling contradictions and major impediments to left solidarity. First, we… Read more Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse  

Below Blind Field presents an excerpt from the Red Fightback collective’s pamphlet Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British… Read more Marxism & Transgender Liberation

By Alex-Alvina Chamberland “These streams don’t flow into one definitive sea, these rivers have no permanent banks; this body no… Read more A meaningless procedure – Ljubljana, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, Malmö, New Delhi, Stockholm, 2005–

By Alva Gotby Two families, alike yet from different worlds, are the focus of Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite (2019). The… Read more Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity

By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)

By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar

By Madeline Lane-McKinley From the outset Big Little Lies had great potential. Premiering in late February of 2017, the series… Read more Bigger & Bigger Lies

by Ken Ehrlich        “Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.” Aimé Cesaire  A grainy… Read more Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures

by Alva Gotby Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 film Shoplifters is less about shoplifting and more about what it means to adopt… Read more Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters