Month: August 2021

Philosophy & Narrative: Cyberpunk, Posthumanism, and Slavoj Žižek

We cover an article by man of the peoples’ philosopher Slavoj Žižek, exploring emerging ideas and the landscape of what posthumanism might evolve into via current pop culture touchstones.

Literature: The (Not So) Midas Touch | 2N5E by Yuki Iwama

We discuss this intriguingly opaque short story, and ponder what it means to consume a god.
[Average score: 5.6]

Film & TV: Strawberry y Chocolate

We head down to Cuba circa the late 70s to check out this touted foreign flick covering a range of socio-political topics. [Average 8.3]

Games & Gaming Culture: Recontextualization/Defamiliarization

On the frontier as always, we define and discuss the practice of recontextualizing and/or defamiliarizing narratives in games (and some other media) framed around likely the most famous example of such found within the Nier series.