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thought
Quantum Cognition and the Psychoanalytic Subject
If the mind operates by superposition, what does this mean for the Freudian unconscious?
28th of June'26
culture
The Eye Is the Judge: On Aesthetics and Capital
Under capitalism, ethics has been displaced by aesthetics. What looks good has overtaken what is good.
14th of June'26
art
On Mugler: Body as Architecture
10th of June'26
poetry
Elegy for the Unmade Bed
A meditation on the domestic and the abandoned — the sheets that hold the shape of someone gone.
20th of May'26
thought
Rasa Theory and the Grammar of Grief
The Sanskrit concept of rasa offers a theory of aesthetic emotion.
11th of May'26
art
The Ornament is Not a Crime
2nd of May'26
cinema
Nakashima and the Aesthetics of Cruelty
Tetsuya Nakashima constructs beauty the way a torturer constructs a confession.
1st of May'26
art
Form Without Function
1st of May'26
fiction
The Stranger and What Transgressive Literature Is Permitted to Do
Meursault is indifferent to everything except sensation. The question is whether we are meant to condemn him.
27th of April'26
culture
Fashion, Capital, and the Grammar of Dress
What we wear is never merely what we wear. Dress is a language, and like all languages, it is also a power structure.
9th of April'26
art
Silhouette Study
27th of March'26
cinema
Wong Kar-wai and the Architecture of Longing
In In the Mood for Love, the frame imprisons the characters.
18th of March'26
poetry
What the Rain Forgets
On repetition and erasure — how the monsoon returns each year without memory of what it once washed away.
12th of March'26
art
Femme Fatale Revisited
14th of February'26
culture
The Spectacle Has No Outside
Debord insisted that the spectacle was not a collection of images but a social relation mediated by images.
2nd of February'26
fiction
On Reading Nabokov
The problem with Nabokov is that he makes you complicit. The prose is beautiful and the beauty is the point.
15th of January'26
art
Against Decoration
1st of January'26
art
Red Study
19th of December'25
thought
Against Wellness
The discourse of self-care is the discourse of capitalism turned inward.
5th of December'25
cinema
Horror and the Female Body
The horror genre has always been a site of contested bodies.
1st of December'25
poetry
Ghazal for the Half-Lit Room
A formal experiment with the ghazal — each couplet a window, each window a small refusal of light.
4th of November'25
culture
Taste as Violence
To have taste is to judge. To judge is to exclude.
1st of November'25
art
Textile Notation
1st of November'25
cinema
On Slow Cinema
Patience as political act. Tarr, Sokurov, and the ethics of duration.
22nd of October'25
art
Negative Space
8th of October'25
fiction
The Novel After Theory
Post-structuralism killed the author. What have novelists been doing with the corpse?
1st of October'25
fiction
Kafka in the Office
Kafka's bureaucratic nightmares were not metaphors.
8th of September'25
culture
On Wearing Black
A short essay on the politics, aesthetics, and quiet nihilism of refusing colour.
1st of September'25
thought
On Boredom
On profound boredom and the case for doing nothing as a philosophical position.
1st of September'25
art
Skin as Surface
1st of September'25
poetry
Portrait of My Father as a Cinema Seat
On fathers, projection, and the dark rooms where we learned what we could not say to each other.
19th of August'25
cinema
The Criterion Gaze
Who decides what constitutes the canon? On curation, taste, and the politics of preservation.
30th of July'25
art
Untitled Study I
15th of July'25
art
The Womanities
1st of July'25
thought
The Subject Who Forgets
Memory, identity, and the Lacanian mirror.
1st of June'25
fiction
On Unfinished Books
What does it mean to publish the fragments?
1st of May'25
poetry
Ode to the Word I Cannot Translate
Some words live only in the language that made them. This is a poem about the grief of untranslatability.
1st of April'25
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