Retrofuturism, or more explicitly, cyberpunk, is one of the most exhausted hauntological aesthetics. As a recall to how the 20th-century imagined 21st-century life, cyberpunk’s influence is evident throughout modern film, music, and multidimensional media, the genre represents a shift from originality at conception to becoming the recycled aesthetic of the…

An important shift in critical theory came with Horkheimer, the head of the Frankfurt School of Social Criticism. Horkheimer, a German, was alive to witness the failed socialist revolution in Germany and began to question the validity of the simple material dialectic. Horkheimer started his analysis, naturally, with the working…

What is faciality? At the most basic level, facialization is the process of identity production via social production of the face, the face being the substance of expression of the signifier as it relates to the dominant sign regime “…the face crystallizes all redundancies, it emits and receives, releases and…

Yes, gender, like money, is a social construct. But that doesn’t mean gender doesn’t hold real-world weight, context, and implication just like money does. Gender is a social tool of expression. We should have the freedom to flex and evolve these identities as we please, as we feel it represents…

The world of social justice and commodities are becoming worryingly intertwined. Mega companies, which have no actual care for the causes of social justice, are consistently selling their image as a representation of “justice.” Companies are even popping up centered around the goal of “furthering” social justice, CHNGE for example…

Deleuze, as a postmodernist, is generally grouped by default into that group of poststructuralists who emerged in the mid to end of the 20th century; however, there is a type convergence with structuralism in a way not directly acknowledged in much work, I think which be examined via Marx. Furthermore…

The world appears to us in two forms. First in a “raw data” of sorts, in the way in which our eye perceives prior to the “decoding” process our brains are responsible for. Secondly, ideologically. The way in which our brain processes and decodes this information is by and through…

By understanding a relationship between the self and an object, we can begin to understand another dimension of capitalist repression. Via the process of controlling the conceptualization of the past, one can control the ability to break from the system itself. Take the music industry. Basically everyone has a song…

Contemporary society is fully ingrained into technology. The transfer from the analog to the technological is fully complete. As the Frankfurtian account of entertainment and the home are intertwined with the economic; the landscape of the office is now inseparable from the home. There is no more “break” or time…