An Oasis in the Desert of the Real: On the Relationship Between Map and Territory
“It is abstraction in its precise, literal sense… complete absence of quality, a differentiation purely by quantity and by applicability Continue reading
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The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization
Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading
Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Video Games
The great messianic art critic Walter Benjamin saw the role of film in his era of capitalist culture as creating Continue reading
Simulacrum in Literature: Baudrillard and Barthelme
Simulacrum, like many terms surrounding postmodernism, has been defined in a number of ways. Perhaps the simplest definition of the Continue reading
Is Postmodernism Self-Defeating?
In academia postmodernism is nearly impossible to avoid. Characters like Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Jameson, Baudrillard (and many others of course), Continue reading
