Who Left a Labubu on Marx’s Grave?

Post-Irony, Jouissance, and Scrolling while Taking a Shit Recently something made me smile: the news that one of those unsettling Continue reading →

Solarpunk: A Short Guide to the Decolonization of the Sun

The following article is an edited transcript of a talk organized by the University of Amsterdam, titled Planetary Ecologies and Continue reading →

Cinema on Cinema: On Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely

It is not difficult to grasp why cinematic language requires signs that take into account the relation between representation and Continue reading →

Against Symbolic Misery: On Architecture, Music, and Literature

Bernard Stiegler, in Symbolic Misery, Volume 1: The Hyperindustrial Epoch, argues that the question of culture is at the heart Continue reading →

New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema

Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog Continue reading →

Zuboff’s Dystopia: The Politics of the Lifeworld

Intimations of Dystopia The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff was published in German in 2018. English language editions were Continue reading →

Motorway: Transformative Ethics of the Automobile

A boundless landscape, roads stretching far beyond the horizon. Wind in the hair, the sky overhead, and society somewhere far Continue reading →

Memes and Flames: The Aesthetics of the Gen Z Uprising

“The youth of Morocco carries the message of a nation,” reads an open letter from the Gen Z 212 movement Continue reading →