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Theses on Terrorist Cinema
The greatest invention of the 21st century is not the iPhone, but the terrorist. Of course, the “terrorist” as a concept has been around for a long time. But it is only recently that terrorism has been translated materially (as an ideological apparatus). Terrorism is a discourse of the state. Terrorism as an ideology necessarily…
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Notes on Godzilla Resurgence and Love & Peace
Godzilla Resurgence (left); Love & Peace (right) Two sides of the same sentiment, but of different political position. Both has something to do with United States’ Nuclear Terror attack back in 1945. Both uses the Kaiju as a metaphor to the Nuclear bomb. First, Hideaki Anno’s and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla Resurgence (2016) as outright rightist,…