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For the most part, in the years after the largest protest in human history (the February 2003 anti-Iraq War demonstration) was roundly ignored by Blair and his ilk, it felt as though we were trapped inside an endlessly reloading cycle of late-capitalist tawdriness, with no counterculture or coalition of dissent to offer even a modicum of friction, let alone relief.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
The generic naming of space is in fact one of the running jokes in the film – a country gas station is simply called Country Gas Station, a motel is called Motel. This is part of the flat affect, the strange tonelessness, which governs most of the film. On the DVD commentary, Cronenberg says that he made the actors wear unpatterned clothes, because patterns would consume more computer memory.
“You Won’t Be Able to Stop Yourself, You Might as Well Enjoy It”: eXistenZ and Noncognitive Labour
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In Superstudio’s 1972 film Supersurface – An Alternative Model for Life on the Earth, the collective called for a new alignment between design and the environment, one in which human invention and the natural world complement, rather than contradict, each other.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
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