Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
...been cheating on her with a number of girls. The creative-writing teacher, frustrated at his inability to write a novel, is confronted by the principal for humiliating students, giving them...
Assets
...culture war wins, targets had already been locked. We’ve reached the expiration date on the neoliberalism and austerity that Western democracies long relied upon to maintain a mask of civility...
Everything Fantastic is Credible: “Bombay’s Republic,” week one
...not only kill them but you also will happily cook them for supper. The Japanese, as you very well know, are trained to fight without fear of death. They don’t...
Preservation Society
...as pieces of nature, the bears are thoroughly beyond culture. Animal or object? Animal and object? This is the irresolvable tension that defines all taxidermy. What, then, do the ten...
Daddy
...waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover–the spirit of...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...an event remembered as the “godsquabble.” These faithful bureaucrats have been keeping records of the costs of the railsea, and nearly kill Sham when he reveals that he hasn't come...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...EEK! In 2009, speculations that ??????? might attempt to kill Imp Kerr intensified. Intelligence officials warned that ??????? had arranged her "imminent physical elimination," in Manhattan, in this town,...
Diner Forty Niner
...that Bruff contemplated, they did commit other crimes, jumping claims, stealing crops, looting homes, ransacking farms, destroying roads, and killing livestock when it suited them. Wherever they went they left...
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
Anatomy of a Dissection
...doesn’t belong there, so she tries to kill it, but only succeeds in cracking its shell. The injured roach sits in front of her with crumpling antennae and pus oozing...
Blogs Round Up
...the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around them and makes them...
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...mother who waits against the hateful desire to despise a black father in a world designed to kill him. Under Reaganite conservatism, the 80s were peak dad, inspiring our cover--the...
This is 40?
...to say about the appropriation of black culture by white youth before pulling back and solving its narrative riddle with gangland fantasia. He gives us a quartet of non-black Kentucky...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...is credited with saying “Kill the Indian and save the man,” a rationale that would come to define attempted genocide disguised as assimilation. While most assume these schools closed in...
Special Victims
...of the defilement, rehabilitation, and revenge that high-grossing movies like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, and Gone have since employed. Recent films like Miss Bala and Martha...
Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...