Critique


Animal Farm
1984
The Wretched of the Earth
Orientalism
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
The Great Gatsby
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Communist Manifesto
Critique of Pure Reason
Culture and Imperialism
On Photography
Babel
Women, Race & Class
Order in the Universe by Robert C. CumbowThe Queen's Envoy by Lord David ProsserOn Set with John Carpenter by Kim Gottlieb-WalkerJohn Carpenter, The Prince of Darkness by Gilles BoulengerThey Live by Jonathan Lethem
John Carpenter Criticism
23 books — 6 voters
Turing's Mistake by Peter J. DenningThe Intelligence Explosion by James BarratThe People's Platform by Astra TaylorThe Net Delusion by Evgeny MorozovTo Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny Morozov
Technology Criticism
11 books — 8 voters

"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity" by Jason ColavitoItalian Horror Films of the 1960s by Lawrence McCallumWar On Critics by Theodore L. ShawComedy by Robert W. CorriganThe Great Monster Magazines by Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter
'Critic'
167 books — 5 voters


We may well have numerous failed states in the Muslim world, I’ll give you that. But what we don’t have are failed societies. That’s a phenomenon that we only see in the West. Our societies are functioning, even if our governments are not, even if we don’t have state-imposed order. We still have functioning societies, we still have moral societies. Our people are still following a moral code. Can’t say the same about the West. And it’s interesting to me that the West uses this as an insult to th ...more
Shahid Bolsen

Remy de Gourmont
He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane & in their insanity the imbecility remains stagnant or agitated; in the madness of a man of genius some genius often remains: the form & not the quality of intelligence has been affected; the fruit has been bruised in the fall, but has preserved all its perfume & all the savor of its pulp, hardly too ripe.
Remy de Gourmont, The Book of Masks

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