(honorable mention to Zizek’s Hitchcock anthology) but I read Jameson’s cinema work throughout undergrad and it helped me visualize film as space and how we think about art as representative
Mar 6, 2024
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of the works that have influenced my daily life and how I think about art I wouldn’t say its number one (more indebted to his successors and predecessors, Mark Fisher and so on), but ”Postmodernism” beyond being extremely compelling about the state of art also happens to be one of the most beautiful works written in English, the fusion of critical writing and prose.
the political unconscious is also great too, underrated as hell, and if you like international cinema it’s a must-read
Feb 19, 2024
“Dune Part Two and the Return of Socialist Realism”
didn’t agree with everything in this essay, but osterweil makes some fascinating observations about contemporary cinema, the rising tide of “lore” & relative ebbing of ambiguity, abstraction, mystery
Mar 25, 2024
I know slavoj zizek is a fucking loser now, but his movie A Pervert's Guide to Ideology was the first piece of media that began to rub away the sheen/shellac of pretense that the world operates smoothly. It was my first time really engaging with a Marxian analysis and sitting with it. I was in high school, and it set me up to care about critical theory. From this movie, I'd read Mark Fisher's really quick book "Capitalist Realism: is there no alternative?" Fisher grounds a lot of his theory in culture/media in a very similar way to Zizek.
After that, I'd follow recommendations made by others in the thread!
Jun 18, 2024
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so much to talk about, the sunglasses, the scarf, the fresh baguette and coffee, the always lovely cafe setting. I think this is the most swag ever captured on camera I aspire to be at this level
Feb 11, 2024
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alright hear me out: carbonation and coffee with a squeeze of orange shouldn’t work, but it does. Been making them daily and i feel a lot better in the morning each time i do
Mar 7, 2024
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the greatest love song of the 21st century??? wait…. They don’t love you like I love you
Feb 25, 2024