Skip to content
  • Home
  • about
  • donate/swag
  • Submissions
  • Conspiracy
  • Dystopias
  • Horror
  • Housework
  • Covers

A Journal of Cultural Inquiry

Category: Dystopias

There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2019 by blindfieldcollective

by Noah Brehmer | Social death and the suicideational demand You can read the first part of this essay here.… Read more There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 2

There is, after all, still air to breathe in hell | Part 1

Posted on February 20, 2019November 17, 2022 by blindfieldcollective

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

Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor

Posted on November 7, 2018November 9, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

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

Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı

Posted on July 27, 2017September 16, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

By Kenan Behzat Sharpe | “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Finnegan’s… Read more Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı

Dreams of Gilead

Posted on June 14, 2017April 25, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

By Sophie Lewis | The Handmaid’s Tale has been generating a lot of enjoyment for over three decades. Its trajectory… Read more Dreams of Gilead

Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”

Posted on April 28, 2017January 22, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

By Madeline Lane-McKinley | 1. “Gender strike” describes the impossibility of a “general strike” only pronounced by conditions of feminization.… Read more Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”

Notes on the Speculative Present

Posted on January 1, 2017September 26, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Madeline Lane-McKinley | “Don’t sway me over / Don’t try to sway me over to your day / On… Read more Notes on the Speculative Present

“Architectures of Control”: Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (2015)

Posted on December 16, 2016September 26, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Foteini Vlachou | “The spectacular view always made Laing aware of his ambivalent feelings for this concrete landscape. Part… Read more “Architectures of Control”: Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (2015)

The Lobster: Debt, Referenda, and False Choices

Posted on July 1, 2016September 28, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Kenan Behzat Sharpe | Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film The Lobster presents us with a world in which coupling… Read more The Lobster: Debt, Referenda, and False Choices

Monotony and Efficiency in Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’

Posted on March 8, 2016September 27, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Madeline Lane-McKinley | Like all of Charlie Kaufman’s films, Anomalisa eventually reaches a critical threshold, at which the aesthetic… Read more Monotony and Efficiency in Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’

Posts navigation

Older posts

Social

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
Blog at WordPress.com.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • Follow Following
    • blindfieldjournal.com
    • Join 236 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • blindfieldjournal.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...