Is the Void just a magical dimension, or a cosmic server room? This essay deconstructs the lore of Dishonored through the lens of Simon Reynolds’s ‘Retromania’ and Mark Fisher’s ‘Hauntology’. We explore why the Outsider is the ultimate curator of a looping past and why Billie Lurk’s [ERASE] was the only way to find a future.
Why is Night City’s housing crisis so terrifyingly familiar? This Cyberpunk: Edgerunners philosophy analysis uses David Harvey’s ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to expose how corporate logic turns our homes into spreadsheet cells and our lives into subscriptions.
Why did Squid Game become a global phenomenon? This essay explores the capitalism in Squid Game, the history of the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and the tragedy of the show’s ending. Using Byung-Chul Han and Mark Fisher, we deconstruct the brutal reality of Hell Joseon and the systemic trap of debt.