Charlie Bertsch / 28 Sep 2022
The Work of Remembrance
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
Culture
John Foster / 24 Sep 2022
Can’t Forget Fascism
Mussolini in Myth and Memory, by Paul Corner
If the spin is correct, Giorgia Meloni won Italy’s election already.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Sep 2022
On Being A Fan
Growing Older With Pavement
As the first chiming notes of Pavement’s “Grounded” rang out, I leaned into my friend. “This is my favourite.” Although a huge fan herself, with her interior décor and a large tattoo to prove it, she looked up at me, quizzically. “Really?”(...)
John Foster / 12 Aug 2022
Marx on Neoliberalism
Hyperculture, by Byung Chul-Han
Korean-German philosopher Byung Chul-Han is the quintessential postmodern figure. Having to come to Germany to study metallurgy, he switched fields and mastered the argot of German philosophy.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 10 Aug 2022
Post-War Youth
400 Blows After Netflix
François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is one of cinema’s all-time classics, the 1959 film that demonstrated how deftly a new generation of French critics could transform themselves into the filmmakers of la nouvelle vague.(...)
Krystle Thorpe / 04 Aug 2022
No Apologies to Chris Rock
What Will Smith Should Have Said
Everyone has something to say about the violence at the 2022 Oscars, whose host called “the greatest night in the history of television”.(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 03 Aug 2022
Sounds About Space and Time
III, by Holy Tongue
Holy Tongue is a testament to the ongoing versatility of the dub aesthetic, roughly half a century since it began to branch off as a separate musical genre.(...)