The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (transcript/subtitles)

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)

They Live (1988) I’ll give you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eating that trashcan. I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating. It’s not only our reality which… Continue reading The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (transcript/subtitles)

Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

In one of the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Putin and Medvedev are compared to Batman and Robin. It’s a useful analogy: isn’t Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’s organiser, a real-life counterpart to the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s [amazon asin=B001XUPF2O&text=The Dark Knight]? In the film, the district attorney, Harvey Dent, an obsessive vigilante who is corrupted and… Continue reading Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks