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• The Doomsday Clock

  It is important not to separate the Trump administration’s environmental policies from its broader attack on civil rights. Environmental policy in the U.S. has... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - Now There Has to Be an Us, Because Now There is a Them.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale : 1x02 Birth Day.How do trust, empathy and companionship work in the world of Gilead? We’ve seen many examples in the first episodes of how... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: Olivia Laing: To The River: A Journey Beneath the Surface.Janet Malcolm: Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers.Fiction: John... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Handmaid’s Tale - It’s Those Other Escapes.

  

  The Handmaid’s Tale: 1x01 Offred.Ordinary is just what you’re used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after some time it will. This will become... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Personal Shopper

  

  The easiest entry point into Personal Shopper is through Olivier Assayas previous films, which have one thing in common, in spite of being set in many... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 20/4/17

  Politics: On the double-bind of claiming moral superiority for bombing Syria but also turning away Syrian refugees. And Lawfare on the difficulty of justifying... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Some Thoughts on 'Playtime'

  

  Pretty Little Liars - 7x11 PlaytimeI am very cautious about this last season, and this last half of the season, because at some point about two years ago, this... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Lovesong

  

  I’ve been thinking about this film a lot since seeing it, in spite of the fact that I didn’t particularly enjoy it while watching it. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 7/4/17

  

  Politics: After the revelation that the Syrian government used chemicals (and possibly nerve agents) in an attack that claimed civilian lives in a rebel-held... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March

  Non-Fiction: Mark Greif, Kathleen Ross (Eds.): What was the Hipster?: A Sociological Investigation.Victor Cha: The Impossible State. North Korea, Past and... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Asymmetric Polarisation

  While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric. Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Hard Exit.

  Much of the discussions so far have centered on whether it’ll be a “soft” Brexit or a “hard” Brexit. A “soft” Brexit would allow the U.K.’s relationship with th... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Cost of an Absolutist Facade

  The upshots of adopting such an absolutist facade can be strung together into a fateful parable of sunk costs. Seven years later, it is still impossible for... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "...none of This is Remotely Compatible with the Modern Conservative Movement."

  To Trump—and to his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, who appeared on a Thursday panel alongside chief of staff Reince Priebus—this means pursuing an agenda of... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - You're Just Bones and Insecurity.

  

  david schermann: bigger than us. [via tumblr]bonobo | kerala. the xx | dangerous. austra | we were alive. sampha | blood on me. camp cope | flesh and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Expanse

  

  In Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents, Olamina, the heroine of the story, dreams of a future where humanity focuses its talents, its aspirations, its... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Muddling of Fact and Fiction

  is a tried-and-true tactic of totalitarian regimes. What’s more, when the two are confused for long enough, or when an indefatigable war on truth has been... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 9/2/17

  Politics: What does it mean for American politics that cities often oppose the policies supported by both the federal government and the states they are... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Octavia Butler - The Parable of the Talents

  

  Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• 75 Books to Read

  "So now we have another group that uses crosses and slaughters people. Jarret's people could be behind it. Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier,... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO