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Vicky Osterweil

Author of the book In Defense of Looting, Bold Type Press, August 2020. Vicky is a writer, editor, and agitator based in Philadelphia.

Dark Inquiry, Features

The Founder

By Francis Tseng and Vicky OsterweilNovember 14, 2017
Unleash your parasitic disruption on the world until it consumes everything and you too
Essays & Reviews

Liberalism is Dead

By Vicky OsterweilSeptember 15, 2017
Silicon Valley’s techtopian libertarianism points to a disruptive left fascism for the 21st century
Essays & Reviews

Not for You

By Vicky OsterweilJuly 22, 2016
The growth in consumption inequality means more movies are made for the dwindling numbers of top earners
Essays & Reviews

Discipline and Pleasure

By Vicky OsterweilMarch 28, 2016
Is addiction a deeper form of distraction or a desperate escape from it? What the video game Dota 2 can teach us
Essays & Reviews

Weight Gains

By Vicky OsterweilDecember 15, 2014
Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus: in the bodies of workers
News

Film Premiere: Masha Tupitsyn's Love Sounds (11/4 + 11/5)

By Vicky OsterweilOctober 29, 2014
"Auditory landscapes can also be interpolations between space and time, space and reality, the psycho-social and the geographic, and temporality and memory. The act of…
Essays & Reviews

In Defense of Looting

By Vicky OsterweilAugust 21, 2014
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
Essays & Reviews

The End of the World as We Know It

By Vicky OsterweilJuly 23, 2014
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
Essays & Reviews

How Can You Watch That Stuff?

By Vicky OsterweilJanuary 15, 2014
Mixed-martial-arts fighters take a terrible beating not only from each other but also from the UFC’s labor practices
Essays & Reviews

The Daddest Place on Earth

By Vicky OsterweilDecember 6, 2013
The low-budget unsanctioned film Escape from Tomorrow is a better-than-documentary look inside the oxymoronic Magic Kingdom
Essays & Reviews

Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema

By Vicky OsterweilOctober 1, 2013
Only director Uwe Boll's incompetence permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence
News

Film As a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 5/15

By Vicky OsterweilMay 9, 2013
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: MAY 2013 The subversive and revolutionary cinema that emerged from Eastern Europe in the sixties and seventies is an incredibly…
News

Film as a Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theater 4/30

By Vicky OsterweilApril 26, 2013
FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: APRIL 2013 The revolutionary moment of the sixties is as dead as anything, and good riddance. Though we may yearn…
Essays & Reviews

Excuses, Excuses

By Vicky OsterweilJanuary 30, 2013
At what point do we recognize an enemy as not merely adversarial, but existential?
News

Film as A Subversive Art @ Spectacle Theatre 1/31

By Vicky OsterweilJanuary 29, 2013
Film As a Subversive Art is a montly program being put on by The New Inquiry and Spectacle Theater in honor of Amos Vogel’s book…
News

Jasper Bernes Poetry Reading: Sunday, January 20

By Vicky OsterweilJanuary 18, 2013
Jasper Bernes is a poet and author whose work on Occupy has appeared in The New Inquiry. He has published three books of poetry: Starsdown…

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