By JN Hoad What follows is a discussion of a cinematic portrayal of the Paris branch of the AIDs Coalition… Read more BPM: Duration and Endurance
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Abundance and Other Lessons on the Lower East Side
By Wren Awry The stairwell that led to ABC No Rio’s second-floor kitchen was dim and dusty and, as I… Read more Abundance and Other Lessons on the Lower East Side
Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse
By Johanna Isaacson The Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted two baffling contradictions and major impediments to left solidarity. First, we… Read more Don’t Go Spilling His Beans: Pandemic, Social Reproduction, and the Hellscape of Masculine Austerity in The Lighthouse
Marxism & Transgender Liberation
Below Blind Field presents an excerpt from the Red Fightback collective’s pamphlet Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British… Read more Marxism & Transgender Liberation
A meaningless procedure – Ljubljana, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, Malmö, New Delhi, Stockholm, 2005–
By Alex-Alvina Chamberland “These streams don’t flow into one definitive sea, these rivers have no permanent banks; this body no… Read more A meaningless procedure – Ljubljana, Berlin, Amsterdam, New York City, Malmö, New Delhi, Stockholm, 2005–
Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
By Alva Gotby Two families, alike yet from different worlds, are the focus of Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite (2019). The… Read more Crossing the line: Parasite and the horror of bourgeois domesticity
Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
By Johanna Isaacson Ginger Snaps rights a long-standing wrong in the history of horror film. The werewolf, a deeply embodied… Read more Feminist Flashback: Were-girls Gone Wild in Ginger Snaps (2000)
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
