Cathy Leaves

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• Doublespeak

  If we are not cautious of this contagion, the ramifications will be more than merely theoretical. If the discourses are blurred, the physical uses themselves... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 18/3/15

  Politics: On the IS' destruction of history in the land it conquers: "The Islamic State, he added, has invented an entirely new, ahistorical vision of society,... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - There is No Through This. I’m Gonna Die.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x08 Appropriately Sized Pots.Rosa: I always pictured myself going out in a blaze of glory. Hails of gunfire, screeching tires. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/3/15

  Politics: International Crisis Group the Islamic State, Boko Haram declares allegiance, and what this could mean.Boko Haram is the latest of about a dozen terro... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent - We’re Just a Bunch of Bodies, That’s It.

  

  Transparent: 1x08 Best New Girl.Best New Girl is one of my favourite episodes in the stellar first season of Transparent. It takes place completely in the past ... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 04/03/15

  Politics: An overview of possible 2016 Republican contenders and what they've published, while Hillary Clinton struggles with the fact that her correspondence a... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February.

  Non-Fiction: Joan Didion: The White Album. Joan Didion: Salvador.Peter W. Singer: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.Anne... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black – I Am an Inmate. I Have Nothing.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x07 Comic Sans.Orange is the New Black is a show about the characters, but it also portrays how systemic corruption affects... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 25/2/15

  Politics: If ISIS is claiming to be Islamic, they will have to construct their claim for legitimacy and their law on precedence, but how they understand that... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 18/2/15

  Politics: The Atlantic with a thorough and insightful analysis of ISIS' ideology (and goes back to the profound question of whether ISIS is a rational... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - It’s Like Coming Home After a Long Trip.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x06 You Also Have a Pizza.OITNB’s Valentine’s Day episode fits in well with one of the major points of last season. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent – You Treat Me Like a Stranger.

  

  Transparent: 1x07 Symbolic Exemplar.Ali: So if there is no god, then honestly, everything we do, no one sees it.Ali, as a teenager, refusing to have her Bat... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 12/2/15

  Politics: The Atlantic with a report from the "largely forgotten" Libyan civil war.CSIS with an analysis of Ukraine's future, "escalation dominance", the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Horror Starts at Home

  

  “I'll kill the monster when it comes. I'll smash its head in.” "For the first time in my life, I saw the place for what it was: lethal, shaped and honed for... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 4/2/15

  Politics: The London Review of Books on the election victory of Syriza, a left-wing party that has recently appointed a Marxist economic as minister of... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 25/01/15 Single-minded

  Pop Culture: Abbi and Ilana from Broad City interview Carrie, Corin and Janet from S-K, The Quietus interviews Janet Weiss, and Vulture reviews No Cities to... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent - Is There Anything You Want to Say to Me?

  

  Transparent: 1x06 The Wilderness.Maura: This is my family. Leonard, I am so sorry. This is my fault. I should have called you. Honey, I should have taken you ou... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Serien Des Jahres

  Best new show: TransparentA father decides to come out to her children and live the life she never could. It affects each of the three profoundly, and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Michael Harris: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Filme Des Jahres

  Her (2013)Short Term 12 (2013)FrankVi är bästPrideIda (2013)The BabadookThe Grand Budapest HotelThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1Regarding Susan SontagBonus... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO