“Publication of the garbage patch study coincided with a new report from Britain, Foresight Future of the Sea, that found…
“I don’t know”
“Annihilation’s great achievement is in exploring these themes through object embodiment, rather than in words. Lena returns to Area X…
Intense Emotions Hurt
“One of the most important through-lines this film and its predecessor share is the way in which both principal antagonists…
The Thingness of All Living Things
“The notion expressed by Harrison Ford that spectators require a “human being on screen” with whom to connect is thus…
Double Back
“Consider the insertion of Philip K. Dick into Blade Runner 2049 as a metafiction, something Dick did consciously and unconsciously…
Bleached Tones and Bright Lights
“A sense of the uncanny also appears in the voyeuristic angles and subtle compositional discord. An eeriness therefore lingers in…
“In the outside world…”
“In the outside world, the problem isn’t that plants are suddenly getting more light: It’s that for years, they’ve been…
Archipelagos of the Anthropocene
“Imagine Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle, sailing the seas across to the Galapagos and writing in his note books about…