Morality Not Normality: The Instru-mentality of Pandemic Responses

With COVID-19 and its consequences still unfolding at the time of writing it is tempting to speculate what the future Continue reading →

How the Wilderness Calls: A Critique of Red Dead Redemption 2

Life persists in wildness. Technique turned the world into a wildlife park, domesticating all within its borders. Yet it didn’t Continue reading →

Becoming-insect through Clarice Lispector’s “The passion according to G.H.”

If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my Continue reading →

A Future on Fire: Climate Change and Hauntology

The spectre of climate crisis stalks our present, finding ways to mash and mangle our now into one that is Continue reading →

Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV

In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading →

Transcendental Cinema: When the Camera Turns Upon Itself

This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading →

The Hypocrisy of American Art Institutions: An Elegant Protest

The recent controversy surrounding this year’s Whitney Biennial and its leading to the removal of tear gas profiteer Warren Kanders Continue reading →

What’s Wrong With Streaming? The Death of Music as Art

The music that we listen to is something that we rightfully see as very important to our sense of self, Continue reading →