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Nostalgia in Motion

“…nostalgia. It's delicate... but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a...

Snowpiercer Ideology in the Sci Fi Summer

I saw three films in a movie theater this summer, all science fiction. I will say that the last half of Godzilla was entertaining. I’m...

2014 Overview: The World Wide Interwebs

My affinity for technology—and video games in particular—can be traced back to playing games like DOOM on MS-DOS on the family computer....

2014 Overview: Exceptional Violence

While traversing the vast desert spaces of southern Idaho recently, I listened to a podcast* discussing the MPAA Rating system. The...

2014 Overview: The Uses of Nostalgia

What are we looking for when we look to the past? This is a question I find myself dealing with nearly every time I sit down to write a...

2014 Overview: An Adolescent Focus

I have a complicated relationship with the movies. In the last few years, I have come to dread the experience of going to the movies...

2014 Overview: In the Weeds

This year I’m planning to head into the weeds, to think through some of the growing body of theoretical ideas and scholarship on plants....

2014 Overview: Gay Male Pornography

Allow me to present a particular series of images. The fourth scene of Michael Lucas’s Urine Fist Fest begins with Adam Killian and...

Watershed

A watershed is a geographic feature that divides water into different systems. A watershed also represents the tributaries and gathering...