*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…
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…
