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Published in The Shadow

·Feb 6

The Intention Behind the Fire: Twin Peaks and Industrialization

“Electricity,” wrote American utopian novelist Edward Bellamy, “takes the place of all fires.” Bellamy worked during a time of energy revolution in the United States, when the smothering stench and sky-blackening smog of coal was gradually being supplanted by a lithe, graceful, seemingly innocuous new energy called electricity. Writers throughout…

Twin Peaks

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The Intention Behind the Fire: Twin Peaks and Industrialization
The Intention Behind the Fire: Twin Peaks and Industrialization

Nov 10, 2021

Bolaño and NAFTA: Free Trade, Structural Violence, and Genocide in the Americas

The history of free trade in Latin America must be understood as a history of violence: violence committed by the Global North against targeted governments in the form of coups, forcible underdevelopment, and wealth-sapping structural adjustment policies; violence against these countries’ self-sustaining rural economies and the livelihoods of their urban…

Bolano

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Bolaño and NAFTA: Free Trade, Structural Violence, and Genocide in the Americas
Bolaño and NAFTA: Free Trade, Structural Violence, and Genocide in the Americas

Published in The Shadow

·Oct 22, 2021

Cinema 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.” According to this view, the eye is a compromised gatekeeper, one whose discernments reflect the particularities of the beholder and their social environment more than any…

Stan Brakhage

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Cinema as Divine Light: An Introduction to Brakhage
Cinema as Divine Light: An Introduction to Brakhage

Published in The Shadow

·Aug 13, 2021

Pig (2021) and Empathy as Social Symbiosis

*Includes spoilers for Pig (2021)* Truffles are symbiotic organisms. Embedded in the sunless soil, the truffle attaches itself to the roots of a tree and begins a process known as mycorrhiza. It provides the tree with soil-based nutrients which the roots cannot absorb without a fungal intermediary, while the truffle…

Film

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Pig (2021) and Empathy as Social Symbiosis
Pig (2021) and Empathy as Social Symbiosis

Published in The Shadow

·Jan 28, 2021

Protomartyr, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and the Anomie of Modern America

Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics. Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Chris Hedges, the great chronicler of American political, social, and economic decay, has described…

Protomartyr

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Protomartyr, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and the Anomie of Modern America
Protomartyr, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and the Anomie of Modern America
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