Alleviations

Miranda Mellis What is it that translates pricks of conscience into acts of conscience? What are the affordances that enable… Read more Alleviations

The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels

Jess Flarity **CONTAINS SPOILERS for all the Mad Max films** Like many Mad Max fans, I watched Road Warrior (1981)… Read more The Aversion to a More Furious Road: Feminism and the Mad Max Sequels

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”

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

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

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

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

A few weeks ago I opened The Guardian to find that the voice of my middle-aged generation, Douglas Coupland, author of the… Read more Ex Machina: Refusing the Space Billionaire Sublime

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