PLASTIC(INE) DESIRES
PLASTICS + TECHNO-UTOPIAN ALLURES // PLASTICS + OILY TEMPORALITIES // PLASTICS + ZOMBIFICATION OF FOSSILISED SUNSHINE // PLASTICS + TOXICITY // PLASTICS + QUEER FUTURITY
Student Work: Criticism
DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENTALISM
On the rifts between ethics-of-place environmentalism and other social and cultural issues, including postcolonialism
EUGENICS IN FRANKENSTEIN
Director James Whale picked up on the potential for commentary on eugenics in Shelley’s novel, an idea and practice that did not yet exist in Shelley’s lifetime.
OCEAN REVERIES
Seen in light of the modern concept of “self-care” through escape, the first chapter of Moby Dick offers a powerful commentary on mental health.
OF SLUTS AND LOCKER-ROOM TALK
Apparently, women only had one shot at innocence and overall agency, and Eve had already thrown it away.
EX MACHINA: THE DIRECTOR’S DECISIONS
Is Director Alex Garland aware of how he abuses Kyoko and the impressions that the abuse leaves in the viewer?
ANA MENDIETA: PERFORMING VIOLENCE
Mendieta’s work is a call to neither only empathy nor only imagination; it implicates the audience as both co-agents and co-artists through participation.
THE REBIRTH OF THE DANDY AS ART COLLECTOR
The art industry is currently controlled and manipulated by the modern day “dandy” and their hunger for conspicuous consumption.
THE BUTCHER’S WIFE AND THE CAVIAR
a compromise between the conscious and unconscious brought about in a situation in which something desired is out of reach
DING LING’S FEMINISM
Through writing and political activism, Ding questioned the ways in which China's State and Party demanded that she flatten her ideologies and personhood to fit cleanly within a single, legible identity: the model socialist woman.
BISHOP’S VISIONARY SEASCAPES
"The Bight" and "The End of March" cast light upon an invisible line that connects Elizabeth Bishop's earlier work to her later work.