Seditious Thoughts
A pause. A thought. A refusal.
The Outsider can't stop watching: Dishonored, retromania, and the loop
Through a looping tape structure, this essay traps you in the Outsider’s condition: endlessly replaying the past, celebrating anniversaries, hitting Quick Load instead of moving forward. We live in Simon Reynolds’s ’total archive’ - a Void where the Outsider watches for 4000 years and we can’t stop scrolling. Billie Lurk pressed [ERASE]. Will you?
Epstein files - Who does the law protect?
This essay strips away the illusion of equal treatment under the law. Using an imagined conversation between ‘Squid Game’ style elites, it explores the epistemological gap between Luigi Mangione’s rapid trial and the sealed lists of Jeffrey Epstein’s clients, proving that the legal system’s primary directive is to preserve the hierarchy of capital.
Mass Effect analysis - The tragedy of the Geth
This critique exposes how Mass Effect manipulates player empathy through aesthetics, vilifying the collective, egoless utopia of the Geth while romanticizing the Quarians’ reactionary regime - ultimately betraying its most radical vision of posthuman peace.