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
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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
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
Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı
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
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”
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
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)
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
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’
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’
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