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The Decay of the Divine

On Writing & Modern Media Dispensation

I recently watched Henning Carlsen’s 1966 film noir classic Hunger, based on Knut Hamsun’s Nobel Prize-winning book of the same name. From the opening credits, with their brisk,

The New Opium for the Masses? Social Media is Way More Sinister Than That

Elon Musk’s ongoing preoccupation with the notion of everyday Joes overtaking legacy media invariably calls to mind an interview I saw with David Foster Wallace, in

Your Playlist For These Times of Uncertainty

It was Zbigniew Brzezinski who, in his most incendiary statements in the now (in-)famous The Grand Chessboard, suggested that the projected New World Order, fragmenting into an abyssal sea of interconnected ideologies

We live in an age of digital intimacy and real isolation

It shouldn't come as news to anyone that the sister genres of shoegaze and dreampop, once relegated to the alternative fringes of the late '80s and early '90s British

Sonic Fiction is a Vessel for Collective Catharsis

Sonic Fiction is a term that conjures images of musical landscapes as fertile and varied as the literary worlds of McCarthy or Camus, and rightfully so. Chiefly an auditory venture, as the