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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

THE READING RHEUM: METROPOLIS (1925) PART 3

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 During Frederen's visit to the laboratory of Rotwang (whose name in German means "red cheeks"), the reader learns (pretty muc...

THE READING RHEUM: METROPOLIS (1925) PART 2

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 In the 1927 film, Freder tries to follow Maria, but loses her and finds himself in the City of Workers, where he seems utterly shocked to s...

THE READING RHEUM: METROPOLIS (1925) PART 1

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 I've just started re-reading Thea Von Harbou's METROPOLIS for the first time in perhaps forty years, as it occurred to me that it m...

IDIOMS PULPY AND TALKY

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 I saw FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS yesterday, and prior to crafting a review for the movie-blog I decided to mediate on why I found myself l...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

THYMOS BE DE PLACE PT. 4

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The last installment of THYMOS BE DE PLACE appeared in 2009 , while the last time I wrote about Frank Fukuyama's magisterial application...

VARIANT REVISIONS PT. 2

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 Some of my current terminology re: "originary and variant propositions" was preceded by the two essay-series CRYPTO-CONTINUITY AN...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

MYTHCOMICS: "DEUS EX MACHINA," ANIMAL MAN #18-26 (1989-90)

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     The latter half of Grant Morrison's run on ANIMAL MAN wasn't originally given any particular title. However, by whatever contri...
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