I “...the negative itself, we may say, has reduced all these individuals, not to their most elementary essence as commodity and labor power (as Lukacs argued in History and Class Consciousness), but precisely to their elemental power as negation and revolutionary refusal, as agency, as a form of revolt in which they are all equal … Continue reading Sinful Dialectic
In times of hardship, conflict, and change, people will gravitate to escapism. The fantastic is sought out and produced as a cultural painkiller, offering cathartic release, hope, and feelings of agency. However, as escapism is pursued as an alternative to hardship there enters a risk of separation from reality, rejecting the responsibilities of the real … Continue reading Tragic Fantasy – A Filmmaker’s Manifesto
Pen and Screen 