Ti West’s The Sacrament and the Dangers of Fictionalized Horror
If the movie that employs that real-life horror hews so closely to the facts that it’s practically a dramatization, tension is bled out and the scares telegraphed by history.
I dive off the cliff after my computer. I catch it, but I die.
John Stamos brings them cups of Oikos on a silver platter. Dannon leans back on the tired trope of sexual desire.
To Be The One Who Doesn’t Wait
Via filthy, international first-class mail, do you become both lover and loved one, the one who does not wait?
Babelsprech International: Young Finnish Poets
All concrete buildings and monstrous shopping centers, the inconspicuous town of Jyväskylä has grown into the most important center for Finnish poetry after Helsinki.
The fire imagery in the Hunger Games films and advertising campaigns recalls the use of self-immolation as a form of political protest.
As more and more people are questioning the value of a college education, branding — the process of creating perceived value out of thin air — is becoming increasingly important for universities.
A video game is the medium best suited to express such an illusion of agency, the exercise of power within a tightening radius of possibility.
Climate change finally comes to the foreground — what excellent news! Well, actually, a lot of the news is horrible.
Babelsprech International: Brazilian Poetry, Part 1
Dealing with the practice of your contemporaries means you must tread shifting grounds, balancing yourself between tectonic plates.