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Zhuangzi in Carcosa – a review of The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch
I’ve been wanting to get my hands on this one for ages. The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a 2020 novella written by Joe Koch and I was aware of it since before its release but after its initial...
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Mirror-Universe Foucault in a land without Marx: The bizarre phantasmagoria...
This book is not what I expected. When I initially opened the cover and was confronted by the statement that, “Except as occasional targets, they {‘leftist’ ideas of universalism, justice and belief...
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The Scold
This comes as an additional reflection arising from, not so much the Neiman book from yesterday’s review, as the media campaign that originally brought it to my attention. See Neiman was interviewed...
View ArticleA short reflection on September 11 and economic hegemony
Throughout 2000 my university plans and activism were very settled. I would be focusing on economic globalization academically and on the “alter globalization” movement – the organized and powerful...
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The Monster Is Not Nice
Earlier this month Alexander Chee wrote an article for Guernica Magazine about Dracula which proposed that some of the evil of Dracula was the sublimated eroticism that Stoker felt toward Walt...
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Chengdu 2023 – the least important front of the new Cold War
Stop the presses! There have been voter irregularities involving second and third placing Hugo award finalists at Chengdu! The stakes have never been higher! I don’t have any great respect for the...
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This is just getting absurd: Hugo 2023 fallout
Where do I even start? A brief chronology: On January 21 Ada Palmer published a blog post on the topic of self-censorship. This became relevant to subsequent discourse. On February 7, File 770 and...
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The Terror of Psychosexual Development under Patriarchy: A review of Poor Things
I don’t know how to start this review. There’s a challenge to introducing a thing so singularly odd as the 2023 film Poor Things. This movie, directed by the esteemed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos,...
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World-building: a genealogical approach
…In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time,...
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Fame and Death: a review of MaXXXine
MaXXXine (2024), the capstone installment in Ti West‘s X trilogy, took me somewhat by surprise. Considering the ground tread in the prior films, X and Pearl, I expected, going into the film, something...
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