Vincent Le

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Faster, Higher, Stronger: 2020, Our Future Eternity

How do we begin to periodise a slice of time like 2020, a year in which complete cultural hegemony about which everyone was talking non-stop was finally monopolised, albeit not by world communist…

by Vincent Le

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Technophilia in the Bedroom

In an 1844 essay called The Metaphysics of Sexual Love, Schopenhauer proposes to account for why so many poets and songwriters are inspired by love as the most powerful passion after which …

by Vincent Le

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The Great Mutation: Ravings from the Bedroom Bunker

There is a scene in the 1988 anime film Akira depicting a billboard counting down 147 days until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with “just cancel it!” graffitied over the top. On 28 February 2020 …

by Vincent Le

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Dying Out and Loving It: Grimes’ Rebirth of Tragedy

In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche traces the development of art back to an untamed nature’s “Dionysian” rupture with our anthropic, “Apolline” values and ideas about what is good, true and …

by Vincent Le