the oneiric form of The Box collapses into its content - the box, like the dream according to Freud, fulfils our wishes.
Permanent employees tend to be quietist to keep (what they think of as) their job security, whereas precarious workers, being expendable, have no power at all.
mentions negative solidarity in the preceding sentence
If, as Wendy Brown has so persuasively argued, neoliberalism and neoconservatism can be made compatible only at the level of dreamwork, then Children of Men renders this oneiric suturing as a nightmare.
speaking of suturing, this is such beautiful linguistic suturing urgh
the hotel - itself a palimpsest of fantasies and atrocities, an echo chamber of memories and anticipations
there is a certain frisson in seeing a major Hollywood film refusing to unequivocally condemn terrorism
