Archive for the ‘fantasy’ Category
The post was partially inspired by Sarah Marshall‘s piece Beyond Clarice at the Hairpin. I’ve mentioned several times that I have the fantasy of retreating to a cabin somewhere, watching an egregious amount of horror films (though I wonder how many one has to watch as I’ve already seen around 200), and writing a book […]
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Tags: Beyond the Black Rainbow, feminist horror, gore, halloween, horror films, horror movies, the descent, the love ones, valerie leon
In a trilogy of posts about escaping the Earth, Land is in perfect form over at his blog Urban Futures. In the first part Land discusses how in exploring the Shanghai 2010 Space pavilion the future is bound to a lack of hardware and an emphasis on children as the potential inhabitants of outerspace. He […]
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Tags: sci-fi, nick land, mark fisher, accelerationism, outward bound, capitalist realism, sci-fi western, warhammer 40k
Toy Story 3 ecology
There is a strong ecological current in Toy Story 3. At its most simplified form Toy Story 3 is 1 Corinthians 13:11 meets reduce, reuse, recycle. Childish things must be properly put away in order to move on not in a generic emotional sense but in an ecological sense. The leering threat of TS3 is […]
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Tags: ecology, pixar, toy story 3
The fall from the piano bench – the fantasy is broken Having just seen the classic The Seven Year Itch for the first time I was struck by how intelligent it was, something rarely seen in comedies. From the very beginning it is evident that there is ‘more going on’ then one would expect. The […]
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