By Sophie Lewis Back in 2019, our beloved editor Sophie Lewis wrote a never-published take on the unconscious racial-familial politics… Read more “She Wants Your Children”
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RIPPER NATION: Serial Killer Reproduction and Viewer Complicity in Netflix’s The Ripper
By Jennie Gilman As if the murder of Sarah Everard by Metropolitan Police officer, Wayne Couzens [1], was not evidence… Read more RIPPER NATION: Serial Killer Reproduction and Viewer Complicity in Netflix’s The Ripper
Mutual Aid as Self-Defense in Bacurau
By Johanna Isaacson With its blazing guns and wide western expanses, no one would guess that the Brazilian horror western Bacurau is… Read more Mutual Aid as Self-Defense in Bacurau
Revisiting Revisiting Genesis in COVID-19: death, time, data, the digital co-option of care
By Eleri Fowler In a time of widespread illness, many of us have been confronted with the labour of caring… Read more Revisiting Revisiting Genesis in COVID-19: death, time, data, the digital co-option of care
Traumatic Nostalgia and Nostalgic Trauma: Consuming and Abusing Cultures of Childhood on Screen
By Bethany Rose Lamont [CONTENT WARNING: discussion of child sexual abuse) Movie Monsters: Child Abusers and Nostalgic Nerds In popular… Read more Traumatic Nostalgia and Nostalgic Trauma: Consuming and Abusing Cultures of Childhood on Screen
Voltairine Without Adjectives
By Evelyn Kronfeld Last year, in an attempt to tidy my bookshelf, I went through my messy stack of zines.… Read more Voltairine Without Adjectives
Aspirational Literary Labor in I May Destroy You
By Sarah Brouillette In I May Destroy You, the main character, Arabella Essiedu, is struggling to finish writing a book –… Read more Aspirational Literary Labor in I May Destroy You
The Werewolf Cult of Silicon Valley
By Lucy Blissett Epochs throw up the monsters they need. History can be written of monsters, and in them. We… Read more The Werewolf Cult of Silicon Valley
The Only Realism: Utopia Within, Utopia Against, Utopia Beyond
By David M. Bell There’s a lot said against utopia. Or rather, there’s little said against utopia itself, because utopia-itself… Read more The Only Realism: Utopia Within, Utopia Against, Utopia Beyond
A Model of Behavior Like A Cop or A Female Saint: On Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada
By Jose Rosales and Andreas Petrossiants Before the Red Army Faction in Germany (1970–1998), the Red Brigades in Italy (1970–1988), and Action… Read more A Model of Behavior Like A Cop or A Female Saint: On Jean-Patrick Manchette’s Nada
