Owen SchalkinThe ShadowThe Intention Behind the Fire: Twin Peaks and Industrialization“Electricity,” wrote American utopian novelist Edward Bellamy, “takes the place of all fires.”8 min read·Feb 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…28 min read·Nov 10, 2021--2--2
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.”…6 min read·Oct 22, 2021--1--1
Owen SchalkinThe ShadowPig (2021) and Empathy as Social Symbiosis*Includes spoilers for Pig (2021)*9 min read·Aug 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…10 min read·Jan 28, 2021----