Sarah Snider
Political Descartes
Negri points to how his dualism retains an implicit awareness of the hegemony of the bourgeois form of social existence, and how this can be translated into an imposition on the state’s mode of producing and existing. The seeds of the revolution are sown.
Bad taste aesthetic - The trash trilogy
In his ‘mondo trasho’, replete with bodily fluids, drag queens, incest and bestiality, low replaces high and the trashoisie replaces the bourgeoisie. And over the mess and the noise and the reek and the wrong, Waters reigns supreme.
Characters stripped of their scripts
Cassavetes shows that in order to be someone fully, we need to recognise, through pain, loss and grief, what we are not or can be no longer. Paradoxically, struggling with these questions and limitations provides a way to personal growth: recognising the boundary of the self is the first step to pushing it back.
Ethics of care
The soundtrack alone is enough to get most Clash fans into the cinema. But Temple adds value to an already precious pop cultural commodity. Highlighting the private life of Strummer, Temple shows how his public political project was tied to a personal ethics of care.
Hammer Classic All Nighter
These films demonstrate a process of internalisation of danger, and thus of problem-solving. A series of mutations, which took over sixty years for Hollywood and American B movies to accomplish took place in just over six years at Hammer in the 1950s.
Censoring the unknown
What made El Topo subversive enough to be deemed illegal in several countries was precisely the confusion between genres and modes of thinking, the incomplete allusions to allegory and myth, the heteroglot centres, the inclusion of the marginalised.
