“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.” — Bertolt Brecht [1] By Madeline Lane-McKinley | In the… Read more Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw
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There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 1
The suicidal imaginary by Noah Brehmer | Faced with the daunting encroachments of debt, cancelled futures, planetary crisis, the intensification… Read more There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 1
“I Like Being Dead”
by Sophie Lewis | Decades ago, a white settler, Alfonso Cuarón, promised a colonized indigenous Mixtec woman from Oaxaca, Liboria… Read more “I Like Being Dead”
Stunted Time: Eldercare and Black Temporality
By Justin Hogg | I. I think about time as my grandmother’s memory fades more and more with each passing… Read more Stunted Time: Eldercare and Black Temporality
Materialism Against Reductionism: On Camfield’s “We Can Do Better”
By Noah Zazanis | From anti-austerity strikes in the UK and Canada, to anti-Trump protests in the US, within the… Read more Materialism Against Reductionism: On Camfield’s “We Can Do Better”
Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
By Rei Terada| i. In Pope.L’s film Reenactor (2012), a continuous loop of almost six hours in its longest version,… Read more Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor
Born in Flames: Fictions of White Masculinity, After #MeToo
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | I: The Stories We Tell What an incredible moment to revisit our cultural narratives. What a… Read more Born in Flames: Fictions of White Masculinity, After #MeToo
Queer in the Abyss: The uses of mis-en-abyme from Wavelength to Under the Skin
By JN Hoad | The term ‘mis-en-abyme’ translates from French as ‘placed into abyss’; the concept is used in art… Read more Queer in the Abyss: The uses of mis-en-abyme from Wavelength to Under the Skin
“ghosts on every corner”: An Interview With Writer Justin Sanders
By Wendy Trevino | “Haunting raises specters, and it alters the experience of being in time, the way we separate the… Read more “ghosts on every corner”: An Interview With Writer Justin Sanders
Animal Accumulation
By Brian Whitener | It is a cliché of the U.S. mediatic imaginary of Cuba: 1950s automobiles in the streets of… Read more Animal Accumulation
