Below are presented all blog entries.
This blog is a place for those who feel tired of speed, of noise, of constant improvement. It’s a space to think slower, feel deeper, and rebel gently.
Drawing on the unsettling melody of Son Lux, this short note explores the song as a manual for pain. It deconstructs the promise of freedom found in the erasure of the subject, where ‘ripping out your heart’ becomes a survival strategy.
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?
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.
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.
Through the lens of Sorel’s political myth and Foucault’s web of power, this analysis explores the deadly cost of rebellion. It reveals how Silco’s toxic pragmatism and Sankara’s heroic isolation led to the same destination: a revolution devoured by its own children.
Is Melina’s sacrifice a genuine choice, or a tragic illusion of freedom? This analysis uses Byung-Chul Han to deconstruct her role as a willing victim in Elden Ring, exposing how the Golden Order weaponizes the ‘freedom’ of self-sacrifice.
The tragedy of David Martinez is a blueprint for our future. This essay uses David Harvey’s theory of ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to show how Night City’s corporate logic is already turning our homes into spreadsheet cells and our lives into subscriptions.
Firelink Shrine and Majula are not just safe zones; they are shelters for the soul. Using Gaston Bachelard’s poetics of space, we uncover the three faces of silence hidden in the music and architecture of Dark Souls’ hub worlds.
What connects Big Hat Logan to the tragic fate of Georg Cantor? Using Jacques Lacan and Georges Bataille, this essay explores the terrifying price of touching forbidden knowledge and staring into the mathematical abyss of infinity.
From the global comedy of Gangnam Style to the brutal reality of Squid Game. Using David Harvey and Mark Fisher, this essay dissects the South Korean neoliberal dream—and the systemic nightmare of debt and competition that replaced it.