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...
Butterfly Effect
...asunder, or stamp upon them, they still persist in living. But a butterfly is killed easily enough, and the only difficulty is to know how to kill it without damaging...
Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
...machine age—we are close to concluding the second one—we are moving into the third one. And there is probably no fourth one. No shit. They're gonna kill us all....
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
Killer Mag
...The publishing and design communities now know that a printed magazine can not only be used to kill at will, but as a particularly efficient tool for political assassinations....
Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 64: Fan Fiction
Fan fiction is and always has been an act of care, which is to say, a genuine kind of criticism.
Policing the Troubles
...Direct Action Against Drugs (ostensibly set up to rid the community of drug dealers; in practice a pretense for killing them) and you have a veneer of community policing that,...
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,...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...every function—it’s hard not to see a certain parallel with how capitalism is killing and eating liberalism. Our heroes spend most of the movie being completely at a loss as...
Craven Family Values
...concerns. Artists who abide by them with some degree of competency and visibility will eventually bring about some critical valuation of the works they have produced. Follow the rule about...
Fan Fiction
...engage culture from within. Our authors use fiction to explode boundaries. The criticism is coming from inside the house. In 1969, three female students at Freie Universität in Berlin disturbed...
Love, Mystery, and Irrationality
...“Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, would kill everybody on earth in order to gain Cathy, but he would never think of saying that murder is reasonable or theoretically defensible. He would...
Cinema Guantánamo
...Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (‘bounty hunters track and kill witches all over the world’), Side Effects (‘a psychiatric-meds melodrama about an NYC woman whose husband’s in prison’), and Warm...
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...