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Category Archives: Theory
George Orwell on Atrocities
But unfortunately the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen. The fact often adduced as a reason for skepticism–that the same horror stories come up … Continue reading
Posted in Annihilation, Theory
Tagged atrocities, extinction, george orwell, violence
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On X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
I. SOME HISTORY Fox’s X-Men franchise has had more hits than misses. 2000’s X-Men was an excellent introduction to the world and the film franchise’s core character Wolverine. Following three years later, X2 solidified many of the themes that director Bryan Singer evoked in the first … Continue reading
A Thousand Plateaus as thriller
The first thought that came to my mind after finishing A Thousand Plateaus for the nth time for my comps is that you could read it as a thriller contemporary thriller novel. It has all the trappings of a Dan Brown novel: there … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged a thousand plateaus, deleuze and guattari, diagram, genre, thriller
Radiation, Animals, Media
Ron Broglio has a short article up at The Atlantic that does a little bit of delving into the animals who live in and around highly radioactive sites like Chernobyl. There’s something really interesting going on with the example of the radioactive … Continue reading
Justin Erik Halldór Smith on the Badiou Studies Hoax
I would normally excerpt something here so that you could get a sense of what’s happening in the piece, but Smith’s short essay is really well put together and I had a hard time choosing a paragraph that made sense … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged alain badiou, badiou studies, communism, Justin Erik Halldór Smith, theory
Robert Macfarlane on Anthropocene Affects
Where the pain of nostalgia arises from moving away, the pain of solastalgia arises from staying put. Where the pain of nostalgia can be mitigated by return, the pain of solastalgia tends to be irreversible. Solastalgia is not a malady … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged affect, anthropocene, robert macfarlane, solastalgia
John Gray on The Man in the High Castle
John Gray is a writer who I have an immense amount of respect for, and he’s taken the occasion of the new Amazon Prime series centered on Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle to talk about Dick, reality, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Theory
Tagged books, John Gray, philip k. dick, science fiction, the man in the high castle
