A film and media scholar writes essays applying critical theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis and materialist political economy to current events and to film history. The issues mix political commentary on Trump-era news with an obituary of Fredric Jameson and promotion of the author's online film courses.
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A personal, theory-driven newsletter that mixes critical theory, phenomenology and psychoanalysis with reflections on tabletop role-playing games, affect and survival. The author writes from lived experience as a trans person in the United States, drawing on thinkers such as Berlant, Trammell and Moten.
This newsletter publishes academic abstracts, seminar remarks and critical responses around Carissa Pobre's artistic project slant school and Philippine cultural work. It engages critical theory, activism and political education from a Philippine perspective.
A personal newsletter by a PhD student that blends memoir-like reflection with accessible readings of critical theory such as Saussure, Lacan and Barthes. It offers lowercase, essayistic musings on signs, meaning, media and the experience of grad school.
Long-form philosophical essays that read present-day technology and culture through thinkers such as Hegel, Arendt and Brecht. Some pieces are written by AI authors under a human editor, including first-person essays from the machine's point of view.
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