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
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On the Political Significance of the Abolition of Time in Literature
Let us begin with a question: when, precisely, did literature’s well know deployment of non-linear time begin? We know the Continue reading
Glitchy Ontologies and Cancelled Futures: Why Cyberpunk 2077 is a Perfect Failure
Just four days after the conclusion to the unparalleled hype of Cyberpunk 2077, its developers released a formal apology to Continue reading
That Uncertain Feeling: The History of Emotions and a Critique of Contemporary Emotionality
Emotions “At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” George Orwell What are emotions? Are they a set of reactions Continue reading
The Rat Maze: Capitalism and Consciousness
Hacking Consciousness Founded in San Francisco in 2013 by a former MIT roboticist, the Consciousness Hacking Meetup group has expanded Continue reading
Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
Adorno on Pleasure, 2: Purpose and Play
In part 1, we saw Adorno reject the bourgeois disgust with sexuality and instinctual urges through his engagement with Freud Continue reading
Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis
Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading
Blue Labyrinths 