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Cinema and the Market: a Contemporary Reflection to an Old Problem
(This piece is a chapter from a book project I am doing tentatively titled as Cinema and Society, references to “later portions” indicate that it is meant to be on a different chapter of that book) As I was writing this, an old debate resurfaced due to the following circumstances: The discourse is quite all…
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On Postmodernism
These are the lecture notes I prepared back when I handled a Reading Visual Arts class early last year. The actual lecture happened on March 29, 2019. Since this is a lecture note, I did not attempt to add any “new” insights on the subject matter. This is a plain general review of ideas on…
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Chris Fujiwara on Film Criticism and Programming
plus some commentary
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New Age Maoist Aesthetics
A trend seems to be happening among young, urban activists and allies: they get easily fascinated and responsive of positive representation of politics, rebels and activists on any platform, especially on popular capitalist art. Cultural representation seems to be the name of the game. What is formerly subversive has now become a default setting. Cultural…
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28 Years Into the End of History
28 years into the end of history, we are experiencing eternal contemporaneity. What the recent times have assured with Mark Fisher’s declaration of the ‘slow cancellation of the future’ is the making-contemporary of what was 5 years ago can be considered as nostalgia. Nostalgia does not exist anymore, 28 years into the end of history.…
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Two Ways of Alienation
on TBA’s I’m Drunk, I Love You