By Madeline Lane-McKinley Days into her new job punching up stand-up material for legendary comedienne Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), 25… Read more Hacking At Work
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Sorkin’s Women
By Madeline Lane-McKinley As she walks and talks through hallways and crowded rooms, she waves her hands in the air.… Read more Sorkin’s Women
Exploding “Erotic Capital”; A Review of Happy Hour, A Dream of a Woman, and Objects of Desire
By Grace Prial In 2011, British sociologist Catherine Hakim coined the term “erotic capital,” defined as “a complex but crucial… Read more Exploding “Erotic Capital”; A Review of Happy Hour, A Dream of a Woman, and Objects of Desire
Abjection and The New Soldier Male in “Daniel Isn’t Real.”
By Johanna Isaacson In 1977 Klaus Theweleit explored what he called “proto-fascist consciousness” by investigating the desires and values that… Read more Abjection and The New Soldier Male in “Daniel Isn’t Real.”
The Tactless Soul at Work: Affective Insurgency in “Office”
By Johanna Isaacson (Tons of Spoilers!) We are in a golden moment of Korean anti-capitalist culture. Squid Games has shown us the… Read more The Tactless Soul at Work: Affective Insurgency in “Office”
The Barely-Managed Heart in Zero Fucks Given
by Sophie Lewis | N.B. This short review was originally posted on Sophie’s patreon, reproutopia, which we encourage you to… Read more The Barely-Managed Heart in Zero Fucks Given
A Pastoral Tale of Ovine Surrogacy True Crime
Questions I really wanted “Lamb” to touch upon include: How can multispecies mothers mother together? What is children’s liberation? What affordances might we gain from demilitarizing species borders? And, lastly: “What care do we owe these children of humanity?” – the question queer theorist and historian Gabriel Rosenberg grapples with in his extraordinary essay on the co-constitution of anti-bestiality laws and laws permitting livestock husbandry, ‘How Meat Changed Sex.’
The Consolations of Heterosexual Monogomy in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
By Sarah Brouillette Beautiful World, Where Are You is a literary romance novel that follows two attractive couples casually dating, figuring… Read more The Consolations of Heterosexual Monogomy in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You
Subway Horror Cinema and Infrastructural Brutalism
by Michael Truscello “It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly… Read more Subway Horror Cinema and Infrastructural Brutalism
Feeling Good in ‘Feel Good’
By Madeline Lane-McKinley From the outset Feel Good is a deliberate, at times quite earnest take on the romantic comedy,… Read more Feeling Good in ‘Feel Good’
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