Tag Archives: Art

Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

Posted on May 22, 2022 by Luther Blissett

By Adam Mastroianni Source: Experimental History You may have noticed that every popular movie these days is a remake, reboot, sequel, spinoff, or cinematic universe expansion. In 2021, only one of the ten top-grossing films––the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Free Guy––was an … Continue reading →

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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Luther Blissett

Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. By Chris Hedges Source: The Chris Hedges Report There is … Continue reading →

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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Luther Blissett

By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows … Continue reading →

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Saturday Matinee: M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Luther Blissett

By Matt Zoller Seitz Source: RogerEbert.com Documentaries about visual artists tend to be so boringly conceived—talk about the life, show a picture, talk about the life, show another picture—that you may not realize what you’ve been missing until you see one as … Continue reading →

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Tears in Rain: ‘Blade Runner’ and Philip K. Dick’s Legacy in Film

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Luther Blissett

Blade Runner, and the work of Philip K. Dick, continues to find its way into our cinemas and minds. How did the visions of a paranoid loner become the most relevant science fiction of our time? By Sean Bell Source: … Continue reading →

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The End of Reality?

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By Edward Curtin Source: Behind the Curtain In 1888,  the year before he went insane, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following in Twilight of the Idols: We have got rid of the real world: what world is left?  The apparent world perhaps? … Continue reading →

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Why We Need Dystopian Fiction Now More Than Ever

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By August Cole and P.W. Singer Source: Slate It hits you every so often. When you when you tug on a face mask to go pick up food for your family. When you witness the powerless suffer casual violence by … Continue reading →

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Masked, Homeless, and Desolate

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By Edward Curtin Source: Off-Guardian Personality is persona, a mask…The mask is magic…Larva means mask; or ghost…it also means mad, a case of demoniacal possession.” Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body Walk the streets in the United States and many countries … Continue reading →

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