Blue Labyrinths

Freedom is an online performance by Eva and Franco Mattes. Its setting is the infamous FPS video game Counter-Strike. Eva, as Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/05/03/why-are-you-so-bad-bro-theory-of-the-avatar/

The system is broken. The celebrity is brighter than the sun. Only she can decide when it is day. There’s Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/14/taylor-swift-and-totalitarianism/

News of the mass of layoffs by Condé Nast, as well as discourse on the decline of music journalism and Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/04/01/reflections-on-the-death-of-music-journalism/

Leopold Bloom is the fictional hero of Joyce’s Ulysses but it was Paul Léon who embodied heroic qualities for real Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/03/26/james-joyces-real-life-hero/

On October 12, 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus landed on the American continent. On July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/03/14/semiotics-of-the-end-the-backrooms/

Green capitalism is the hottest new thing. A sunny valley with advanced technology, a robot farmer picking strawberries with grandpa Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/02/28/what-is-solarpunk/

The parasite serves as a useful simulacrum for post-modernism. Post-modernity engages us with a kind of viral discourse, which seeks Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/02/05/parasites-symbiotes-and-decoys-remembering-baudrillards-contaminated-discourse/

Every morning, first thing, I flick on my phone for a dose of mass death. War-images and propaganda dance on Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/01/30/weird-fictions-neoliberal-horrors-joel-lane-gary-budden-and-the-british-urban-imaginary/

I One of the most original and significant texts to have come out of Europe in the past generation is Continue reading →

https://bluelabyrinths.com/2024/01/25/a-column-of-cloud-and-a-column-of-fire-dimitris-lyacos-poena-damni/

In 1993, Nick Land writes: “It is probably relatively uncontroversial to conclude from all this that Derrida is not a Continue reading →

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