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
Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
by Alva Gotby Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 film Shoplifters is less about shoplifting and more about what it means to adopt… Read more Kidnappers: Social reproduction, crime, and gender in Nénette et Boni and Shoplifters
Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
by Johanna Isaacson In what follows I try to make sense of the life and work of Lizzie Borden, director… Read more Hollywood Kills Feminism: the work of Lizzie Borden
RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
by Noah Brehmer | A few years back something like a rave–or what was anyways called one–unfolded under the Baltica-highway in… Read more RAVE-ACCELERATE-DIE
with binyavanga
Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author of short stories and essays, an LGBT activist, and a champion of African literary… Read more with binyavanga
Notes On Childcare
By Alexandra Chenelle 1. I play with a friend’s child while they watch basketball. I am pretending that the pink… Read more Notes On Childcare
The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
By Cam Scott | Few figures of the French left are as non-forthcoming in posterity, let alone English translation, as… Read more The Hospital of History: Guy Hocquenghem’s The Amphitheater of the Dead
We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)
