EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE ALL THE TIME
I wrote about “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and how the idea art that makes you feel good is technically good exists on the same spectrum as the idea art that makes you uncomfortable is bad.
I wrote about “Everything Everywhere All At Once” and how the idea art that makes you feel good is technically good exists on the same spectrum as the idea art that makes you uncomfortable is bad.
May 2022
ZIWE FUMUDOH’S DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
I wrote about how Ziwe Fumudoh monetised the feeling of anti-racist solidarity to let viewers feel like they’re “in the know” without them having to do anything.
I wrote about how Ziwe Fumudoh monetised the feeling of anti-racist solidarity to let viewers feel like they’re “in the know” without them having to do anything.
May 2021
HILMA AF KLINT AND EGOIC DISSOLUTION
I wrote about how the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint created an elaborate fiction to dissolve her ego and create a new visual idiom.
I wrote about how the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint created an elaborate fiction to dissolve her ego and create a new visual idiom.
June 2021
TOTAL RECALL AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN FASCIST
I wrote about how Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall“ is an understudied masterpiece that locates the propensity for fascism in adolescent fantasy.
I wrote about how Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall“ is an understudied masterpiece that locates the propensity for fascism in adolescent fantasy.
December 2022
THE UNBEARABLE SINCERITY OF THE BEAR
For Fran Magazine, I wrote about how FX’s “The Bear” creates Potemkin kitchens with ahistorical labor relations and artifical innocence.
For Fran Magazine, I wrote about how FX’s “The Bear” creates Potemkin kitchens with ahistorical labor relations and artifical innocence.
July 2023
PUNDIT PROBLEMS
For 1 of 200, I wrote about how New Zealand pundits’ denial of material racism’s existence could sleepwalk the country to atrocity.
For 1 of 200, I wrote about how New Zealand pundits’ denial of material racism’s existence could sleepwalk the country to atrocity.
June 2023
MUSIC TO GET LEFT BEHIND TO
I wrote about how Lorde’s “Solar Power” is a record of denial borne of a retreat into lotus eating.
I wrote about how Lorde’s “Solar Power” is a record of denial borne of a retreat into lotus eating.
August 2021
HOW A POLICE SHOOTING SPARKED A POLITICAL MOVEMENT
For Belt Magazine, I wrote about how the police murder of Antwon Rose Jr. sparked a political movement that’s forging a new kind of American politician.
For Belt Magazine, I wrote about how the police murder of Antwon Rose Jr. sparked a political movement that’s forging a new kind of American politician.
March 2019
AFTER THE MASSACRE
For Popula, I wrote about a regular day in a Jewish neighbourhood after having covered a synagoue massacre there a few weeks prior.
For Popula, I wrote about a regular day in a Jewish neighbourhood after having covered a synagoue massacre there a few weeks prior.
February 2019