“Heckling, Infighting, and a Whole Lot of SAlt”: Dylan Thomas on NatCon 2021
You’re in luck – I’ve decided to sit through three days of heckling and infighting.
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DUNE: Timothée Chalamet nullifies Jihad (Part One)
On planet Hollywood, star power governs all. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, and the other famed and acclaimed, are to this extent suitable castings. They’re also altogether conventionally attractive, and share some chemistry; in the case of Lady Jessica and her son Paul Atreides, though, this borders royally on the oedipal.
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MAX MOK AND THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE
When Max fled Hong Kong, aided by Foreign Correspondent, he had “enough for two months’ rent” and thus worked in construction sites, cafes, and would even have “cleaned lobster from the laps of Chinese billionaires”, because he felt lucky to have escaped and did not want to let that go to waste.
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DEUS EX MEDIA
Paradigmatic of the revolving-door scapegoatism underpinning discourses surrounding “Big Tech” (Trump’s laboured hypocoristic for online platforms), News Corp and competing mafias, and the federal government or specifically the two-party system, is Facebook claiming it is battling false news whilst benefiting from its tumorous growth.
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War, what is it good for? Not Guam
On the night of the 11th of August, I was talking with friends about how Guam might not be there tomorrow. It was a weird thought, would this be my 9/11 or Diana? It obviously wasn’t, but it nearly felt like it. However, this hypothetical question of what happens if you decide to blow up […]
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