Pauline Harmange’s Controversial ‘I Hate Men’ Takes on Blind Privilege
Is misandry the best response to male misogynists? In I Hate Men, Harmange argues that a form of misandry is necessary for women's survival.
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The Deconstructive Irony of Ortberg’s ‘The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror’
This collection gives us Ortberg's trademark gender-swapping, flipping of accepted norms of good vs evil even while blurring the line between them, and startling backstories that do not always reveal underlying motivations but definitely add dark, ironic humor.
Power Play: Brian Williams, Leonard Cohen, and “First We Take Manhattan”
In "First We Take Manhattan", Leonard Cohen recognized the shared appeal of extremism in politics and art as the allure of power.
“One in a million, that is you”: ‘Device 6’ and the Decentralization of Player Identity
Games seem like the medium that might best challenge the authority of the author, given as they are to allowing the player to manipulate their “texts", to build within their systems, and potentially to break, rearrange, or reorder them in some personally satisfying way. Games seem like that.
Moving Pixels Podcast: Paths and Parables
This week we explore the branching narratives of The Stanley Parable to see if there can be a singular and straightforward way of understanding Stanley's plight.