Tumblr of the Day: Discourse on the Otter
Anyone who has been near an undergrad philosophy class in the last 50 years will tell you that the theme of the Other has been a constant among the world's thinkers. From Marxism to...
Category: North America
The US Midterms: A Swing to the Right
For those not in the US, the nation’s constantly churning election cycle must appear utterly nonsensical. Every time a political race ends and an election wraps up, accompanied by the usual...
The New Wave of Comic Book TV Shows
In the next six years, we are facing down nearly 40 superhero films, according to announcements from the major studios. That is, to put it mildly, a lot of superhero movies. But the superhero...
Review: Gracepoint
The show opens with a vista that’s achingly familiar for me — though I know it’s shot in British Columbia, that great stock replacement for the Pacific Northwest, it feels like home. The...
Where now for Cyber-feminism After GamerGate?
GamerGate’s toxic torrent has been at once enfeebling and enervating. Its furious assault on, chiefly, women in games and those who espoused anything approximating feminist views therein has had...
LFF Dispatch 4: Brad Pitt’s “Fury”
Irony rides a pale horse. Where have all the Panzers gone? The architects of blitzkrieg have been reduced to legs and tails and hooves as Patton and Zhukov strangle the Thousand Year Reich. Oblivious...
Is Outlander the Feminist Answer to Game of Thrones?
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
LFF 2014 Dispatch No 3: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and History of Fear
The remarkable and sinister “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” begins in abrupt fashion. Jeremiah a Kentucky farmer wrestles with his daughter Sarah. She stabs him with a headless chicken, an act both...
Showtime’s “The Affair” Fizzles
Showtime’s The Affair is generating a great deal of buzz on the fall television schedule, as a show that might provide an intriguing narrative approach and some insight into the way we view men,...
The Great Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives
The foundations of modern conservatism have always been nebulous. It is less a defined set of principles than a reactionary disdain for change and bleary-eyed nostalgia for some imaginary pastoral...