Caitlin Forster
@thenewsincerity
Caitlin Forster
ollard’s narrator ironically decrees: ‘Thou shalt work from home; thou shalt go back into your office before you bankrupt Pret’ (2022: 145). She captures not just the inconsistency of the messaging, but also the cynical ways in which the needs of businesses were often placed above those of individuals.
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metamodernism & the new sincerity
relationship between covid and capitalism
The novel returns repeatedly to the idea that when we read, write and act in the world, we might be channelling something older than ourselves: finding one’s own contemporary life anticipated in literature, ‘exactly as if you are at last speaking your own mind – now, finally, you are saying something you have for so long struggled to say’.16
The novel ajar: literary allusion and the search for an open future in ...
But on this front – the task of handling real events on a real timeline with a real sense of the vanishing boundary between online and off – Eddington is a success. Aster’s film touches so many of the third rails of modern cinema – the internet, screenshots, Zoom, celebrities, political figures, bitcoin, 9/11 – and yet somehow survives.
Covid, social media, Black Lives Matter: Ari Aster's Eddington takes ...
This brings us back to language, and how it can both conceal and reveal. In its “Japanese people first” slogan, Qudan explains, the Sanseito party uses the katakana word for “first”, rather than the traditional Japanese kanji word. “By using the katakana equivalent,” Qudan says, “a lot of the negative associations can be replaced by neutral ones.... See more
Author Rie Qudan: Why I used ChatGPT to write my prize-winning novel
There is no such thing as a “here problem”. Everything is an everywhere problem. At any point, the worst parts of the internet – which is to say, the worst parts of people – can descend on your town at terrifying speed. To see that environment rendered believably on screen is, ironically, the most thrilling part of it all.
Covid, social media, Black Lives Matter: Ari Aster's Eddington takes ...
This novel gives most space to the frictions of the everyday. Yet it also has more human contact and nonsovereign relationality.
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metamodernism & the new sincerity
Pollard’s Delphi
Thinking about that day, the dog running for the tennis ball, the pasta that they ate together, the feeling wells up inside him painfully. Wanting to say and hear the words again, that can never again be said or heard. To return to the house once more, and not find it dark and empty, but airy and bright again with open windows.
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The necessity of an ecological aesthetics, or not. We need an erotics of environmentalism.