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Category Archives: Theory
On Chloe Howl – “Rumour”
1. “Rumour” is predicated on Chlöe Howl’s gaze returning back to us. I don’t mean this in a familiar register — this isn’t warmed over Laura Mulvey with a reflective moment stapled on. There might be fertile fields here to understand … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Riff Raff Studies, Music, Theory, Video
Tagged chloe howl, criticism, rumour, theory
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On Bruns’ On Ceasing To Be Human
I recently finished Gerald Bruns’ On Ceasing To Be Human, and I just wanted to jot down a few notes about it. I’m going to put those notes here because why not?! 1. Ceasing is a wonderful summation of a particular strain of … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged gerald bruns, nonhumans, on ceasing to be human, theory, video games
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Taussig on Calling from Two Sides
Months later at night, drinking the strong medicine which makes your head swim, singing the while in ebbs and flows of pictures, the topic of these kids came up. I strongly doubt that the healer and I would have talked … Continue reading
Posted in Theory
Tagged death, georges bataille, michael taussig, satanas, theory
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Wark on Manovich
The genius of Alan Kay was to realize that the barriers to entry of the computer into culture were not just computational but also cultural. Computers had to do things that people wanted to do, and in ways that they … Continue reading
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Tagged lev manovich, mckenzie wark, new media, theory
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Adam Kotsko’s Radical Materialism
[T]his post, itself, is the most radical materialism possible. Keep these words that I am blogging to you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are … Continue reading
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Warren Ellis at Haunted Machines
https://vimeo.com/124536236 This is a talk of Warren Ellis playing his history is the future in the past tune, and it’s one that I like a whole hell of a lot. However you feel about his writing in comics and otherwise, … Continue reading
The Social Obligation of Fantasy
We see it less now, but we had almost a solid decade of thinkpieces and academic arguments about the role of fantasy in the post-9/11 American landscape. They all land somewhere around this point: the rise of fantasy media in … Continue reading
Ian Williams on Hulk Hogan The Liar
Hogan started his big run as a pure American hero, waving a flag as he kicked the shit out of the Iron Sheik for his first world title. The first thrill of Hulkamania coincided with the giddy height of Reaganism, … Continue reading
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Tagged hulk hogan, ian williams, professional wrestling, wrestling
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Three Readings of Films by The Wachowskis
I. The Matrix Trilogy The Matrix Trilogy presents us with a supposedly linear vision of time that is revealed to be completely static. In the second film, the council member takes Neo beneath the city to show him the machinery that allows … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Theory
Tagged cloud atlas, film, jupiter ascending, speed racer, the matrix, the wachowskis
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Martin on the Cinephile as War Machine
There is no essential form or content to cinephilia, but maybe there is something like an essential cinephile process or gesture. Let me put it this way: cinephilia is a war machine; a tactical, cultural war machine. Always a different … Continue reading
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