Category: Movies
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it also is the thing it pokes fun at
This reads to me like one of the few reviews written by someone who actually saw the same movie as me.
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reach random people in a different way
It’s not that the Nineties are back, so much as that there are sufficient echoes thereof to cause one to hope for the enantiodromic inversion that they might be assumed to portend.
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we can only do what we can do
Things are looking fizzy out there.
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30MAY24 / Tramps!
As a Nineties kid, I came up knowing (and hating) the 1980s for being a period of superficiality, of “style” and the artifice of appearances, and it’s interesting to hear these pioneers concede those diagnoses, and discuss them in terms of their inheritance of scenes previous.
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political problems cannot be solved on the aesthetic level
After getting irked by reviews of Oppenheimer, Adam Kotsko wrote a short thing that feels to me like it’s the missing piece to that Sam Kriss essay I excerpted last week, which has been—as the kids say—living rent-free in my head ever since. Kotsko has an interesting and very valuable insight into “culture war” stuff,…