Colman Durkee is a student of critical social theory at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He runs the Hidden Apparatus record (and soon to be literary!) label.

Beyond the colonial us and them

By smoothly incorporating the familiarly American melodramatic romance model into the story of one man’s military enrolment, the Korean production team behind this film created a convincing, and implicit Japanese propaganda piece that challenges dichotomies between colonisers and colonised.

On the death of Darwish

The dialectic of home and exile enables a poetry, not of hope – in this case, the always-present longing for return – but of creation. Home is not the land you knew and will greet again (though Darwish would remain throughout his life a defender of the Palestinian cause), but a place impossibly unknown