“The plague-stricken town, traversed throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies – this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city”. – Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish A Generalized Estrangement In his introduction…
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By now most people have probably seen the second ‘Christmas video’ put out by Kevin Spacey. It was about as weird and subtly disturbing as the first one. The mainstream media described it as “bizarre”, “strange” and “chilling”, but that’s about as far as the analysis went. Why was…
There’s a scene in the James Bond film From Russia With Love, where super-villain Blofeld is looking at his three Siamese fighting fish in the tank before him. Blofeld says to Colonel Klebb, the main antagonist of the film, “Siamese Fighting Fish. Fascinating creatures. Brave, but on the whole,…