“Both on and off screen, food literally ‘places’ us in the world, both through its materiality and its meanings. In … More
Category: Cinema
Augmented Reality
“Early cinema held an instant fascination with the train, as is evident from the numerous actualities of engines entering and … More
Get Me Out of That Room
“The Shining” (1980): The hedge maze model from “The Shining,” one of Kubrick’s most viscerally terrifying efforts and a truly … More
The Stranger
“The idea of creating messages to send on interstellar space probes seems both obvious and completely absurd. On the one … More
Conscious vs Unconscious
“Forbidden Planet [1956] extrapolates a contest between homeostasis and reflexivity, projected into a future defined by the ascendance of virtuality. … More
The Scale of Logic
“In its secularized form, the uncanny becomes a matter of design. Artists employ its tricks. Audiences laugh and enjoy rather … More
Swathed In Patterns
“For it is possible to recognize the dominance in the unconscious mind of a ‘compulsion to repeat’ proceeding from the … More
Portrait of Power
“[Guy] Debord argues that the modern world introduced new ways of seeing and exhibited a fascination with reshaping our world. … More
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