Owen SchalkinThe ShadowThe Intention Behind the Fire: Twin Peaks and Industrialization“Electricity,” wrote American utopian novelist Edward Bellamy, “takes the place of all fires.”Feb 6, 2022Feb 6, 2022
Owen SchalkBolaño and NAFTA: Free Trade, Structural Violence, and Genocide in the AmericasThe history of free trade in Latin America must be understood as a history of violence: violence committed by the Global North against…Nov 10, 20212Nov 10, 20212
Owen SchalkinThe ShadowCinema as Divine Light: An Introduction to Brakhage“There is no innocent eye,” writes Nelson Goodman in Languages of Art. “[It] always comes ancient to its work, obsessed by its own past.”…Oct 22, 20211Oct 22, 20211
Owen SchalkinThe ShadowPig (2021) and Empathy as Social Symbiosis*Includes spoilers for Pig (2021)*Aug 13, 2021Aug 13, 2021
Owen SchalkinThe ShadowProtomartyr, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and the Anomie of Modern AmericaCapitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
