Archive for the ‘film’ 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
When Facebook’s new Timeline look was announced a few months back a brilliantly funny video lampooned it by taking a clip from Mad Men where Don Draper is doing a presentation on Kodak’s new photograph slide show device. In the episode the Eastman-Kodak execs want to call the device the wheel harping on the fact […]
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Tags: 80s movies, don draper, drive, facebook, facebook timeline, mad men, memory-image, new media, nostalgia, time-image, timeline
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
Weirding Wests
Besides a slew of zombie cowboy films, western and horror seem like genres that do not intermix often. The history of the weird and the western seem to have a limited amount of crossover with the rpg Deadlands and the DC series Weird Western Tales. For the latter Jonah Hex and the Riders of the […]
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Tags: deadlands, genre mixing, lovecraft, westerns
Plasticty of Worlds
Previously, I discussed Graphic Novels and Comic Books in relation to spatiality and the art of drawing (as articulated by Badiou). The act of drawing creates the form itself as well as the background (from the whiteness of the page) embodying a schizogenesis – of the cut that holds together. This stitch-trailed-abscission is the central […]
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It would be hard not to notice the numerous rapid descents in the Dark Knight which, while uncommon for filmic representations of superheroes, seem particularly frantic and well done. I would argue that this is indicative of the film’s content as well as its form: the Dark Knight is not so much the recognizable ‘descent […]
Filed under: Badiou, comic books/graphic novels, film, Lacan, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Zizek | 3 Comments
Tags: Badiou, batman, ethics, quentin meillassoux, the dark knight, the joker, Zizek
The rift between narrative and non-narrative has been crystallized in the recent writers strike – as it becomes as visible as possible, what exactly it is the writers do for the television industry. Executives have predictably turned to reality television in its various forms to wait out the storm. Reality television is, in fact, almost […]
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A fairly recent study to verify the existence of non-conscious effects in the brain entailed a subject being flashed with a fearful face so quickly (33 milliseconds) that it could not be consciously registered. Yet, as caught on a high res MRI, the face had an observable effect – causing anxiety in the test subject. […]
Filed under: Brassier, cognitive science, film, literature, Meillassoux, psychoanalysis, Speculative Realism, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: collapse iv, concept horror, horror movie, lovecraft, quentin meillassoux, ray brassier, slasher, the thing
Leaky Economy
The following is a nervously humorous exchange from No Country for Old Men: “Chigurh: What’s the most you’ve ever lost on a coin toss? Proprietor: Sir? Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss. Proprietor: I don’t know. I couldn’t say. Chigurh: Call it. Proprietor: Call it? Chigurh: Yes. Proprietor: Well – we […]
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Human and Animal
/1/ – Critical Separation What is it that separates human beings from animals? It is a simple question in the most broad sense and one that is constantly answered and simultaneously unanswerable. The connective tissue is one immersed in violence – when humans are treated ‘like animals’ do both the torturers and the subjects of […]
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