Category: Commonplace Book
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Alex Garland and Jacques Rancière Walk Into a Bar
Setting the Scene The reviews of Alex Garland’s Warfare are essentially unanimous: it is a good film. The arguments that ensued upon its release were not about its cinematography, sound design, tension, atmosphere, performances, or any of the things that make for an impactful aesthetic experience. No, the arguments boiled down to a rather simple question about…
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The Chair Company, Twin Peaks, and The Crying of Lot 49
There is a certain focal point that separates what I would call auteur post-structuralists (like Lynch, Pynchon, and (absurdly) Robinson) from run of the mill postmodernists. And that focal point is alienation. For the post-structuralists, alienation is a way of life. Or rather, it is the way of life (of the human subject). Pesky orders…
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