Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and the Three Ghosts of Subjectivity
Every brick in Pink Floyd’s The Wall shows that haunting lies not in wailing and chain-rattling but in trauma, alienation, and absence.
Karl Marx
‘The Zone of Interest’ and Our Modern Day Comforts
Can The Zone of Interest, a film about a Nazi commandant and his family, have something to say about the modern day comforts so many enjoy?
COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism
Our pandemic quarantine has become the sublime enactment of Baudrillard's theory of consumption – that modern consumption, with its myth of individual liberty and choice, is in fact 'de-socialising'.
‘A Little History of Economics’ Provides a Charming Overview of the Dismal Science
Niall Kishtainy, writing for a general audience, provides a breezy stroll through economic thought, from Plato to Thomas Piketty.
Roger Luckhurst’s ‘Zombies’ Is Gory and Highly Informative
Zombies is just as much an anti-imperialist work as it is an historical examination of the walking dead.
“The Goodness of Privacy in a Warm Room with Books”
We all search for escape, and while music, drugs, radicalism, or fame may ease the monotony, the protagonists of so many of these tales find themselves at the end of their narratives still constrained.