Media favorites (in alphabetical order):
Title | Author | My thoughts |
---|---|---|
Anatomy of Hell | Catherine Breillat | Weird asf and the Sea Calls Me Home |
Annihilation | Jeff VanderMeer | Lots of spores and a lighthouse and why biological materialism holds up. Also a biologist's wet dream. |
Audition (1999) | Takashi Miike | I thought she was going to be like a Jubokko. Never again, will I look at wire the same. kiri, kiri |
An Obedient Father | Akhil Sharma | |
Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama | 'Best narrative ever' says all who watched. Also, corporeal horror, and why friendship is forever. |
Cowboy Bepop | Shinichirō Watanabe | I live here in my dreams. |
Dune | Frank Herbert | Taught my eighth-grade self about religion and ecology. |
Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | |
Killing Commendatore | Haruki Marukami | My personal favorite of Murakami. |
Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | Excellent, hurt like hell and couldn't have been more perfect timing if it(he)'d tried |
True Detective | Nic Pizolatto | |
Twin Peaks s1, s2, & s3 | David Lynch | Nothing needs to be said. |
Samurai Champloo | Manglobe | an ultimate soundtrack, some divine masculinum, and a sunflower of a woman. What a time to be alive. |
Severance | Dan Erikson, Mohamad al-Masri, Amanda Overton | |
Suspira (1977) | Dario Argento | Same, girl, same. |
Egghead stuff:
Society Must Be Defended | Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976 | Michel Foucault |
The New Jim Crow | 2010 | Michelle Alexander |
How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind | 2021 | La Mar Jurelle Bruce |
The Extended Minded Thesis | 1998 | Andy Clark & David Chalmers |
The Meeting Between Society and Psychiatry | 1959 | Franz Fanon |
The Ignorant Schoolmaster | 1987 | Jacques Rancière |
The Souls of White Folk | 1903 | W. E. B. Du Bois |
The Poetics of Relation | 1990 | Édouard Glissant |