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Up in the Air
I came to anarchism through loneliness. I remember trying to outrun my lifelong feelings of inadequacy expressed through fits of depression and suicidal tendencies. As a consequence, I developed...
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All Power to the Commune of the One!
In honor of our good friends over at MIM Notes Movie Reviews We offer this contribution to the growing body of anti-Imperialist interrogations of the superstructure. We review Iron Man 2. As we...
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The Road going to no home
A review of Revolutionary Road (2008, directed by Sam Mendes ) One of the most effective criticisms that can be made of people who choose to live an alternative lifestyle is that it is (in the terms of...
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Making Anarchism Sexy?
a review of Die Welle2008, Dennis Gansel Germany After the Third Reich One of the most pervasive aspects of contemporary German culture is how to address the legacy of the Third Reich, or indeed,...
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Dark Passage
A review of the film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu by Cristi Puiu Some things shrill as they are about to cross a threshold. But it is strange how the ringing becomes melancholy; like a knell, when it...
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Robin Hood: The Grandmaster of Thieves
A couple months ago I finally got a chance to see the latest Hollywood adaptation of Robin Hood (Ridley Scott, 2010). I’m not a big Russel Crowe fan, and Hollywood mega battles in the post-Braveheart...
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At Least They’ll Let Us Have Our Misery
“Fuck you, mother fucker! I don’t need this shit!” I was about 3 or 4 when I went with my father to his work. He was a super (like a head janitor and handyman) at a convalescent home at the time. I...
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Booze, Corruption and Rage
So I saw “The Rum Diary”, a film that is based on an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson. This is a great movie to showcase the inescapable but often overlooked fact that the world that we live in is...
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To Beach or Not to Beach
He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of an intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the...
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A Predictable Journey
The Hobbit, the Chase Scene, and the Suspension of Imagination The first cinema installment of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, was visually stunning, technically faithful to the book (even in its...
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