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Self-Ironizing Anti-Satiric Culture and a Juggalo’s Sense of Wonder

Last year, Saturday Night Live ran an unfunny parody of an infamous viral video. SNL sought to mock the 2009 Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial which advertised the tenth anniversary spectacular for...

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Post-postmodern Satire and More Juggalo Wonder

Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the Insane Clown Posse and Juggalo culture where I argued that ICP’s project, so heavily distorted in the tropes and defenses of postmodernity, is essentially...

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Slavoj Žižek Uses the Marx Brothers to Explain Freud’s Notion of Superego,...

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Slavoj Žižek on the Failure of Imagination

Tagged: Charlie Rose, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, philosophy, Slavoj Žižek

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“A Nice, Modest, Ethical Suicide”— Slavoj Žižek

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See Astra Taylor’s Documentary Examined Life, Featuring Judith Butler, Peter...

Tagged: Astra Taylor, Cornel West, Documentary, Examined Life, Film, Judith Butler, Peter Singer, philosophy

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“I Want a Third Pill”— Slavoj Žižek on The Matrix, Fantasy, Sexuality, and...

Tagged: Fantasy, Freud, libido, Sexuality, Slavoj Žižek, The Matrix, Video Games

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Slavoj Žižek on Love, Belief, Snapple

Tagged: Judith Butler, Slavoj Žižek, Snapple, Video

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A riff on the Westworld pilot, “The Original”

Watching HBO’s new show Westworld, I couldn’t help but think of the late American novelist William Gaddis’s obsession for player-pianos. The narrator of Gaddis’s final novel Agapē Agape howls that the...

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No knightly hero | Gravity’s Rainbow, annotations and illustrations for page 364

The Gray Tree, Piet Mondrian (1911) Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions 1  of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of...

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A riff on my favorite ghost story, Roberto Bolaño’s “The Return”

Roberto Bolaño’s short story “The Return” is so good that it has two perfect opening paragraphs: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that there is life (of a kind) after this life. The bad...

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Roman Muradov’s graphic novella Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art reviewed

Roman Muradov’s newest graphic novella, Jacob Bladders and the State of the Art (Uncivilized Books, 2016), is the brief, shadowy, surreal tale of an illustrator who’s robbed of his artwork by a rival....

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A note to readers new to Infinite Jest

A note to readers new to Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest poses rhetorical, formal, and verbal challenges that will confound many readers new to the text. The abundance of...

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On Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about storytelling

Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale has been adapted into a television series by Hulu, a fact which you probably already knew if you are on the internet and are interested in these sorts...

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Notes on Vulture’s “100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction” list

Did you see Vulture’s “100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction” list? I saw it this morning, and on the whole it ain’t half bad, despite including way too many novels from the past 10 years. Lists are...

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A review of Blade Runner 2049

Film poster for Blade Runner 2049 by James Jean I don’t remember how old I was the first time I saw Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott, 1982), but I do remember that it had an instant and formative...

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Blog about Lydia Davis’s short story “Happiest Moment”

I’m not sure exactly how many nested layers there are to Lydia Davis’s short story “Happiest Moment.” Sometimes I count as many as nine frames to the tale, sometimes only four or five. Sometimes the...

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Blog about the first half of Antoine Volodine’s Writers

Antoine Volodine’s collection of loosely-connected stories Writers (2010; English translation by Katina Rogers, Dalkey Archive, 2014) is 108 pages. I have read the first four of the seven stories...

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George Saunders’“Little St. Don” and the limits of contemporary satire

George Saunders has a new story called “Little St. Don” in this week’s New Yorker. A satirical hagiography of Donald Trump, “Little St. Don” is a pastiche told in little vignettes, parables roughly...

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Notes on Vulture’s “Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon”

Last year, Vulture put together a list of “100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction,” and I wrote about it on my blog. The list was good fun, and there are a handful of novels on it I’m still keeping an...

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