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Enjoyed thinking through some questions in "The Northman," a film that "presents less as premodern than antimodern — as a reactionary rejection of the aesthetic and imaginative terms of modernity"

with @lareviewofbooks

https://t.co/Hyz9zmo3mw

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considering the trauma narrative and remembering Frantz Fanon, who located individual and existential trauma within a historical, material, and colonial framework and demanded revolutionary action for collective liberation—a psychoanalytic impulse with postcolonial implications

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Meet the Rhode Island Progressives Taking on the Democratic Establishment https://t.co/nlP3qrXQZ6

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Executive Order to delay the start of football season (college and professional) until after the US Open. It's too soon!

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"In attempting to 'summon the shadows of ages past,' 'The Northman' instead loses itself in them." Wilson Taylor breaks down the pre-modern in Robert Eggers's "The Northman." https://t.co/wN6xkXJy4o

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With much appreciation, as always, to the clear-eyed Annie Berke (@sayanniething), who helped me see this piece from the beginning

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Enjoyed thinking through some questions in "The Northman," a film that "presents less as premodern than antimodern — as a reactionary rejection of the aesthetic and imaginative terms of modernity"

with @lareviewofbooks

https://t.co/Hyz9zmo3mw

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"If the pre-modern irrupts into the consciousness of Prince Hamlet — and of 'Hamlet' — in the form of the slain father’s ghost, 'The Northman' wholly embraces its pre-modern urge." Wilson Taylor analyzes the pre-modern in Robert Eggers’s “The Northman.” https://t.co/mTQQxXmkBC

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wrote about cultural nostalgia, the antimodern impulse in "The Northman" and in ourselves, and "the dangerous myths buried beneath the treacherous landscapes of the (late) modern"

check it out at @LAReviewofBooks

https://t.co/Hyz9zmo3mw

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Nobody gave The Green Knight as much love as it deserved

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@sjmmcd @hrmilligan @shwiffles @BethPotzzz @communecore @cinqdols

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new year new me like

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the CDC accounts it high time to get to sea as soon as you can

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all I want for Christmas is you etc

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looking for a holiday film this season?

check out "The Green Knight"—full of holly jolly holiday vibes throughout!

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glad to get my booster but puzzled by my recurring dream that I am in some sort of red room... is this a common experience

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happy Joni Mitchell "Blue" season to all who celebrate

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this is the pro-life future Coney Barrett wants

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very cool that Kristen Stewart is playing Edmund himself in the new "Spenser" biopic and can't wait to see how she handles "Faerie Queen"

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proud to have come by my bad Kant takes honestly—

struggling through Critique in the library for days before gasping out a "short response" that comes back, a week later, with just brutal margin notes and an emphatic encouragement to revise

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remembering for no reason how Ishmael imagines that the whaleheads suspended from either side of the Pequod to be Locke and Kant:

"Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right."