Tag: Culture
Fighting the Empire
Occasioned by the release of Andor, Jonathan Brown reflects on the class politics of the Star Wars media empire and capitalism’s cultural logic.
Serving Somebody
Cutting through A Complete Unknown’s apolitical individualist myth of Bob Dylan, Jordy Cummings puts Dylan back in the sixties to find the left’s Dylan.
Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus
Robert T. Tally Jr. reads Tolkien’s corpus with the tools of Marxist literary criticism, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy writer’s rightist fans.
The Guilty Superhero
Stephen Strother reviews Oppenheimer. Strother argues that, despite its Oscar-worthy trappings, the film remains a superhero movie.
Art Workers Rise Up
For too long, gatekeepers of the art world have spoken in the name of the sector’s most marginalized workers. But now these workers are taking back the narrative, linking antiracist mobilization to struggles in their own workplaces.