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[Fiction] ‘Gloaming’ — Nick Power
“The newborn sky outside is quicksilver and vast, threatens to engulf our eyes completely.”
[Review] Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra — Will Moffitt
“Beginning with Rousseau as the archetypal exemplar of ressentiment, Mishra initiates a thrilling 300-page journey spanning four centuries that intertwines tales of German nationalists, Russian revolutionaries, Italian fascists, and a host of other anarchist terrorists.”
[Essay] Caché: Colonial Misappropriation or Postcolonial Masterpiece? — Joseph Barker
“Haneke provides a masterful critique of contemporary postcolonial reality.”
[Essay] The ‘Marauder’ Movement: Citizen Journalism and the 2013 Gezi Park Protests — Asligul Armagan
“The dynamic between networked journalism and government created a schism that has divided Turkish society to this day – either you are a çapulcu, or you’re against them.”
[Essay] American Honey and The American Dream – Will Moffitt
“American Honey recognises the dream for what it is, an epiphanic abstraction that, for better or worse, imbues otherwise vacuous lives with meaning and purpose.”
[Essay] Conforming to Type: Film as Subversion — Louis Armand
“Like Joyce in Ulysses, Godard’s orientation towards Shakespeare is one of devotional iconoclasm – a combination of Oedipal patricide and re-embodiment.”
[Essay] Putin’s Foundation Myth: Russian Memory and the Second World War — Joseph Barker
“Putin’s government has successfully influenced a range of cultural forms to manipulate the politics of memory from above.”
[Essay] Race, Ethnicity and Queer Theology — Tom Hillsdon
“The theology of queer black scholars has moved the voices and experiences of queer black people from the margins to the centre.”
[Essay] A Brief History of Chinese Nationalism 1901-1949 — Joseph Barker
“The limited nationalism of the KMT fundamentally served the interests of China’s intellectuals and the bourgeoisie.”
[Essay] On Affinity — Charles Bliss
“Neither animate nor inanimate, we vitalise these abstract forms like Dr Frankenstein.”
[Essay] Madness and Jouissance: Hölderlin, Benjamin and Hopkins — Josh Mcloughlin
“In Hopkins, the caesura constitutes the relationship between utterances, gives form to Gedichte, and reveals the intimate link between madness and jouissance.”
[Fiction] ‘Homeless’ — Bart Van Goethem
“At home, Jerry always felt he was some sort of permanent guest.”
[Essay] Subversive Cinema from Waters to Carax — Louis Armand
“Where cinema was, ego will be.”
[Fiction] ‘Flesh Songs’ — Catherine McNamara
“He describes the persimmon tree as an equilibrium of weight and colour, a tree Gauguin would have liked.”
[Essay] Being Lynchian — Eliza Slawther
“Lynch’s magic lies in seamlessly blending a prosaic matter—the realism of small-town life—with a poetic surrealist form.”
[Poetry] — Jenny Sloan
“Unburied heads poke above the paste as / Two childhoods sit in either corner of the cab.”
[Essay] Queer Time in Woolf and Wilde — Josh Mcloughlin
“Muñoz’s theory is based on a flawed understanding of Heideggerian philosophy, because a truly ‘unbounded’ ontology would reject the very ‘equipmental’ being Heidegger attacks – and the utopianism Muñoz mistakenly celebrates.”
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