
Psychoanalytically informed critique of culture and cinema. Rigorous non-academic writing about niche subcultures.
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Naoki Urasawa is a frequent topic in this newsletter. My weekly series on Pluto (2023) from the end of that year is one of my favorite things I’ve ever written.
This week, though, it’s all about Billy Bat (2008). You can find an official E...
I had an idea for a podcast. Please, hold your groans. The premise would be, of course, film discussion with a guest. There would be some kind of scale that would dictate how we would discuss the film, chosen by the guest. On the high end,...
What’s in a name? In Music League, one name reigns supreme: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
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Even as an adult, I find this song profoundly confusing. Is its premise really that there are two people, the speaker and t...
I started re-reading The Prince of Tennis (1999). It’s so awesome. I forgot that Ryoma Echizen and Baki Hanma start out with the same genre-subverting character motivation.
Speaking of these uncredited, maybe unintentional, similarities am...
I love an issue that calls for me to bury the audience in footnotes. They snowball out of control. Once I start leaving footnotes, I start aspiring to the full-page Fanon footnotes about Lacan in Black Skin, White Masks (1952). My copious f...
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I have a PhD in literature and have been writing a weekly newsletter since 2018. I write most often about film and television, video games, subcultural niches, cultural studies, and critical theory. Subscribe today: https://www.paradoxnewsletter.com/
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