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Dark Anemoia Index
A list of books, films, video games, graphic novels, online threads, and memes that contribute to the body of work I will be discussing in this new series, Dark Anemoia. Each of these either prefigure, influence, or otherwise determine a new canon of media that reflect on a specific form of horror related to a…
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Dark Anemoia
Dark anemoia is a portmanteau neologism of two pre-existing terms: dark media, from Eugene Thacker’s essay of the same name, and anemoia, one of many words coined by John Koenig for the extended project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
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Benjamin Bratton – The Revenge of the Real (2021) [OTF012]
Benjamin Bratton. The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-pandemic World (London/New York: Verso, 2021). Written hastily and timely during the initial weeks of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Benjamin Bratton’s essay The Revenge of the Real can be read, from the author’s point of view, as a document of multiple, interconnected, systemic failures. Failures…
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The perfect rap song doesn’t exi-
Ice Cube’s “It Was a Good Day” is timeless. Of course, it evokes a particular moment, a place, a set of circumstances – that’s the whole idea behind it. It was a nostalgic throwback even in 1992, built on an impossible day where everything goes right: every small glory and beautiful moment happening one after…
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak – “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography” (1985) [OTF011]
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. “Subaltern Studies: Deconstructing Historiography” (1985), in The Spivak Reader, ed. by Donna Landry & Gerald MacLean (New York/London: Routledge, 1996), 203-235. A hyperstitional carrier is defined by the Hyperstition collective as a fictional figure or group serving as either an authorial voice or cited name with the appearance of authenticity that would…
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Lessons of Darkness (1992) [OTF010]
Lessons of Darkness, dir. Werner Herzog (Canal+/Première/Werner Herzog Filmproduktion: 1992). Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions; they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins. Friedrich Nietzsche1 Facts do…
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Joan Hawkins – Afterword to I Love Dick (2006) [OTF009]
Joan Hawkins. “Afterword by Joan Hawkins”, in Chris Kraus. I Love Dick (Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2006 [1997]), pp. 263-77. Interest in Chris Kraus’s semi-autobiographical novel I Love Dick has been on the rise in recent years, finding its feet as a bestseller two decades after its original 1997 publication date and being adapted into a…
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The Ladder
So, 2020 is nearly coming to a close, and I feel like it’s time for me to reflect on/explain why I haven’t posted as much on this blog this year than I had done in the previous two. In short, there are two decisive reasons, and a number of smaller ones that are mostly best…
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Antonin Artaud – “On the Balinese Theatre” (1938) [OTF008]
Antonin Artaud. The Theatre and Its Double [Le Théâtre et son Double], tr. Victor Corti (Richmond: Alma Classics Ltd, 2013 [1938]). One of the most influential texts on theatre in the twentieth century, Artaud’s The Theatre and Its Double decries the turn Western theatre had been taking for the best part of four centuries, namely,…