by Sophie Lewis @reproutopia | Some days you sit down in a cinema and just happen to watch two overwhelmingly beautiful… Read more Female Orpheuses at the Philly Film Festival
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On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar
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
Bigger & Bigger Lies
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
Networks, Infrastructures, Logistics: Mapping Capitalist Systems in Words and Pictures
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
Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
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
Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director… Read more Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
by Noah Brehmer | A few years back something like a rave–or what was anyways called one–unfolded under the Baltica-highway in… Read more RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
with binyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author of short stories and essays, an LGBT activist, and a champion of African literary… Read more with binyavanga
Notes On Childcare
By Alexandra Chenelle 1. I play with a friend’s child while they watch basketball. I am pretending that the pink… Read more Notes On Childcare
The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
By Cam Scott | Few figures of the French left are as non-forthcoming in posterity, let alone English translation, as… Read more The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
