I finally got around to catching up with the latest season of Black Mirror. Overall my favorite season, and especially episodes one, four, five and six. The finale (Black Museum) was an excellent crown piece. Some random thoughts: Is the future of neuroscience all about the transferring of consciousness? Let’s… Continue reading
Corthustra: I’m doing okay atm, in general not so great. Earlier tonight I was doubting I would make it for the long haul. Lulu: Long haul? You working an overnight? Corthustra: Nah, life Lulu: Huh whatcu mean? Corthustra: Knowledge is really the void of knowledge Lulu: Codified or uncodified? Corthustra:… Continue reading
Christmas Eve 2017 – me and my brother embark on an epic journey to the local cinema in preparation for the holidays. We decided on a double feature, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Well done. Good science-fiction is more than just being epic, and… Continue reading
And the film wars continue: I understand I’m on the side of a real underdog in DC right now. Suicide Squad was a big “ehh” and despite the public praise I actually found Wonder Woman to be a terrible disappointment. Perhaps my hopes were too high. I have yet to… Continue reading
The work of Philip K Dick has had a tremendous influence on my own writing, his corpus is monumental, his ideas of another dimension: Continue reading
So the world’s coming to an end and somehow people seem cool with that, hashtag #TheEndIsNear. I’m calling all comrades out from across the multiverse to discuss one of my favorite modern philosophers/academics Slavoj Zizek and what he has to say about the end of the world in light of… Continue reading
A little lesson on surrealism in literature: http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-surrealism-definition-artists.html For me the lineage of surrealism can be traced all the way back to Artistotle’s Poetics and the counter-critique he makes of Plato’s critique of poetry in “The Republic”. Aristotle’s critique lays a foundation for the anti-formal with the establishment of formalism itself. He… Continue reading
After seeing another failed analysis of Zack Synder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice by Wisecrack, I wanted to share some of my thoughts in response to the first video they did for Earthling Cinema: I get that these critiques are focused on wisecracks as the name suggests, but they also… Continue reading
And yet another engagement with the Real, and let’s talk gender while we’re at it. I been talking a lot of Lacan in my critiques because Lacan is a profoundly useful analyst for understanding our world today. Recently saw the Jon S. Baird’s film Filth starring James McAvoy based on the novel by… Continue reading
So today I’m tackling another controversial remake which hasn’t gotten a fair shake, that is Spike Lee’s 2013 Oldboy written by Mark Protosevich and based on the 2003 classic Oldeuboi (올드보이) by South Korean director Park Chan-wook and writers Hwang Jo-yoon and Im Joon-hyeong, itself based on the Japanese manga. I enjoyed the original,… Continue reading
