hey here's your reminder that josh made the definitive piece about critiquing the arts in a time of total global collapse; also there's some stuff in there about an alien or w/e, but really it should make you think about why we talk about this stuff when it's all falling apart
Josh is one of the finest video essayist cum-movie critics Iāve had the pleasure of enjoying, I cannot recommend his reviews and videos enough
So Jon Ashworthās dumb arse fucked off to America to āadviseā the Democrats on how to win. That is, a guy who lost a safe Labour seat in the first election Labour managed to win *in 19 years* is advising the Harris campaign on how to win. His advice? Be transphobic, obviously.
It fucking H A U N T S me that there exists a 4 hour cut of Cloud Atlas that I haven't seen. Could genuinely be a Kingdom of Heaven situation
read the first two jenny sparkses. tom king does 9/11 watchmen by way of sandman. gotta hand it to him, where others root through the trash he's out there constructing palaces from it.
Despite remaking the humanities and social sciences, setting them on whatever firm material footing they may be on, Marxism is routinely discounted by practitioners. When a bourgeois historian is forced to admit that something has economic roots, they tend to do so in a surprised, apologetic tone.
