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Jan 4

Not Another Tár Review

Author’s Note: It was impossible to parse my thoughts about this film without getting deep into the plot, so major spoilers ahead. From the moment the film begins, you have a sense that Tár will be a perpetually playful subversion of expectations. Perhaps nothing sets the viewer up for this…

Tár

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Not Another Tár Review
Not Another Tár Review
Tár

9 min read


Jan 4

Flesh and Blood

Author’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of racial and domestic violence. “Modernity’s endless technoscientific entanglements of blood and race are the zenith of vampire culture. It’s a history of blood spilt in the name of bloodlines…Modernity is the Age of Vampires — as much as it’s an age of undead…

Vampires

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Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood
Vampires

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Jan 4

Watch The Throne

Author’s Note: This essay contains spoilers for Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, both the books and the TV adaptation. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once remarked that “a chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” It’s a surprising, provocative consideration: that chairs…

Game Of Thrones

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Watch The Throne
Watch The Throne
Game Of Thrones

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Oct 10, 2022

To Make The Museum You Must Destroy It

The concert begins with a piano. The piano might be black or brown or, in one instance, green. It’s never situated on a stage, rather in the middle of the room where the audience can see the instrument from all sides. The performance begins. …

El Museo Del Barrrio

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To Make The Museum You Must Destroy It
To Make The Museum You Must Destroy It
El Museo Del Barrrio

6 min read


Oct 9, 2022

Stasiland (2003) & Acts of Benign Psycho Horror

Anna Funder’s Stasiland was not the book I had originally intended to buy. Yet, that nagging feeling in my gut persisted with such intensity after that I returned back to the feminist bookstore I got it from and exchanged it. I’m embarrassed to say that it was the cover that…

East Berlin

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Stasiland (2003) & Acts of Benign Psycho Horror
Stasiland (2003) & Acts of Benign Psycho Horror
East Berlin

10 min read


Aug 29, 2022

Notes From a Heatwave

“Angels are unthinkable / in hot weather,” — Monica Youn, ‘A Parking Lot in West Houston’ The story goes like this: the Sackett and Wilhelms Lithography & Printing Company was struggling to keep the humidity levels in their production rooms low. Their paper was warping from all the moisture in…

Climate Change

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Notes From a Heatwave
Notes From a Heatwave
Climate Change

12 min read


Aug 21, 2022

Lessons From “The Leftovers”

“What’s a person to us / but a contortion / of pressure ridges / palpable / long after she is gone?” — Rae Armantrout, ‘Missing Persons’ “Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they’d ruined, got a little stale after a while.” — Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers The…

The Leftovers

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Lessons From “The Leftovers”
Lessons From “The Leftovers”
The Leftovers

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May 16, 2022

Constructing Feminine Intimacies

Colette’s Living Environment (1972–1983) — “she thinks, the material and the dream can join,” — ‘Dreamwood,’ Adrienne Rich, Poetry Magazine, 1987 In 1972, after seeing an old parachute as someone’s apartment decor, Colette Lumiere (then known only as Colette) began stapling found fabric to the ceilings, walls, and floors of her Pearl Street loft. A…

Colette

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Constructing Feminine Intimacies
Constructing Feminine Intimacies
Colette

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Jan 15, 2021

Craftswoman: On Mina Loy

Her earliest memory was not of human faces, the touch of a parent, or even the plush hand of a doll. No, her first memory of the material world would be that of a doorway. …

Mina Loy

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Craftswoman: On Mina Loy
Craftswoman: On Mina Loy
Mina Loy

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Dec 11, 2020

Metrograph, 1:46pm

Act I — 12:08 pm Like visiting a museum gallery on a weekday morning or a cemetery in the off-season, only those most loyal, most spurred with sudden agitation cut through the garbage-pimpled alleyways, past hungry crowds collecting around cafe doors and impatient dogs waiting outside grocery stories, to surrender…

Movies

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Metrograph, 1:46pm
Metrograph, 1:46pm
Movies

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