By Hunter Bivens (after Heiner Müller’s “The Father”)  On a Tuesday morning in October of my tenth year in California,… Read more NOTES ON A DEAD FATHER

By Madeline Lane-McKinley The following is an excerpted chapter from Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times (Common Notions… Read more The Stand-Up Artist in the Age of Gigification

By Johanna Isaacson I was recently asked an impossible-to-answer question: what five films would you recommend to a social-justice minded… Read more Political Horror 101: Reclaiming the culture we love for the world we want to see

By Madeline Lane-McKinley In her 2021 book Work Won’t Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe makes the convincing case that “work… Read more Laughing at Work: The Genre-Creep of Anti-Workplace Comedy in 2022

By Jess Flarity Swedish screenwriter and director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness (henceforth, Triangle) was a controversial Palme d’Or winner… Read more Selling Yourself for Pretzel Sticks: Masculine Crisis in the Dystopian Triangle of Sadness

By: Payton Alexa McCarty-Simas Quentin Tarantino, auteur director of such hyper-violent, exploitation-inspired films as Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Django Unchained… Read more Flirting With Empowerment: Quentin Tarantino’s Troubling Depictions of Sexual Assault 

By Nicole Froio Growing up in the 1990s, I was raised to believe that, despite my gender, I could achieve… Read more All Girlbosses Are Bastards