Tag: review

Reeling in Horror!

Have YouTube-era horrors Backrooms and Obsession taken us into a post-superhero era? Have the critics understood the shift: that horror is the realism of our time?

Herding Categories: On Hyperpolitics

The Left’s materialism needs to go deeper, even to the point of giving its own origins a rigorous social and historical account.

Yours sincerely/Wasting away

…autofiction is a literary choice and more as a way of using the cloak of fiction, a way of protecting Carey’s loved ones. Yet this caution comes at a cost. The terms ‘mental illness’ or ‘depression’ used in the book and elsewhere about Carey simply fail to capture the ferocity of the death drive at work in her suffering…

Living with the Violence of the Past

I am in a tangle of emotions, I am contemplating my own complicity.

Pre-Fascist Space-Time, Forever on the Move

America is presently Making Itself Great Again. Nicolás Maduro is rotting in a Brooklyn prison cell. The Ayatollah is dead... the world has found itself in a very Pynchonian moment.

Deepening Symbolic Recognition

The book negotiates a complex task in addressing two audiences at once: non-Aboriginal Australians seeking to understand urban Aboriginal experience in the context of Treaty, and a younger generation of Aboriginal Melburnians who, as Andrews puts it, ‘are searching’ for their community’s history, and ‘are hungry for it’.

On Living in an Accelerating World

Rosa is an intriguing writer who makes you think. He is a critical theorist in the best sense of that tradition.

West Gate: The bridge and the play.

West Gate has been a surprise hit for the very bourgeois Melbourne Theatre Company, which is not really known for presenting working-class voices in its repertoire.

TWO HOURS OF DESPAIR

All of this adds up to a visceral experience, there is nevertheless something slightly unconvincing about the documentary Orwell: 2+2=5.

Are You Experience?

In the proliferating genre of obituaries for experience and the self in the digital age, one is inclined to wonder whether we are, at this stage, crying wolf—so that when experience is really gone, we will not be able to tell.

The Fearless and the Horrors

The biography of a leading Australian feminist activist makes visible the shifting values and subjectivities in the movement’s past half-century here.

Universal Estrangement

Native Manitoban Matthew Rankin mixes his own story with Iranians in Winnipeg, their lives criss-crossing. Migrant story? Fantasia? We never find out.