1951 – Malignant (2021)

spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Seattle / Seattle Underground

Malignant is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, and Michole Briana White. Malignant was released theatrically and on HBO Max in the United States on September 10, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures. (wiki)

‘Malignant, is camp horror at its finest, a leaky cauldron of influences that mix into a wild third act as gory as it is unpredictable. From its murder mystery to its flickering neons to its wide-eyed, fragile protagonist, Malignant is first-and-foremost an ode to Italian giallo.’ strangeharbors-review

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1950 – Kate (2021)

spacetime coordinates: late 2010’s Tokyo at night

Kate is an American action thriller film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, and Tadanobu Asano. It was released on September 10, 2021, by Netflix. (wiki)

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1949 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

spacetime coordinates: 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.

The film is a modern satire loosely based on Homer‘s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. (wiki)

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1948 – Tigerland (2000)

spacetime coordinates: September 1971, Tigerland (the name of a U.S. Army training camp during the mid-1960s to early 1970s, located at Fort Polk, Louisiana as part of the U.S. Army Advanced Infantry Training Center. As often the last stop for new infantrymen on their way to Vietnam, Tigerland was established in humid and muggy Fort Polk in order to closely mimic the environmental conditions of South Vietnam.)

Tigerland is a 2000 American war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Colin Farrell as Private Roland Bozz. It takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War. (wiki)

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1947 – EarthNight (2019 video game)

“Dragons have taken over the Earth, and humanity has fled to space. You must help Stanley and Sydney skydive back to Earth while careening across the backs of massive, snake-like dragons as they soar high above the planet, all while an original chiptune soundtrack pounds away in the background. Every moment is intense and layered with intricacy.

Explore five layers of the atmosphere all brought to life by artist Mattahan, who meticulously painted each of EarthNight’s 10,000+ frames of art and animation.

We intend to change the way you think about auto-runner games by designing on a much grander scale.  EarthNight is currently available on Apple Arcade, Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Steam.” www.cleaversoft.com

1946 – The Universe is Hostile to Computers (YT video 2021)

For me this video has some metaphysical dimensions – and you will perhaps pardon me for that. There is something very encouraging (even if with micro-catastrophist repercussions) in the fact that there is this flippancy of bits all around us, or the fact that all the Mars rovers are using some old hardy tech in order to minimize or become resilient in the face of the chaotic, unpredictable behaviour or highly energetic particles. Most of the time life here down below is kind of disconnected from the above (outside the realm of critical astrology or the like). This video exemplifies in a very specific way the proximity of the realms, of the so below as above, the fact that effects somehow overrun causes, that we cannot deal with a unicausality, and particles energized by black holes at the center of our galaxy actually reach us and somehow – influence or may affecteven results of e-elections. There is also these proof of vibrant materialism all around in the words of Jane Bennett, something that the micro processor industry had to deal with since the beginning. This enlarged affectibility (panexperientialism?!) – the affectations of matter in the Spinozist terms are all around, and even ultra rare events such as antimatter collisions highlight an invisible universe that is made visible via all sorts of glitches, via gaming impossible feats. Visionary artists such as Hilma af Klint that participated actively in the feminist occultures (like Theosophy that acted like a feminist liberation theology) around 1900 where also increasingly sensible to the insensible and the invisible realms and with the discovery of various ends of the spectrum – and new theories of “quanta”, “fields” and rediscovery of atomism, became also the artists to try and imagine and represent our first modern art abstractions.

It is important to keep thinking how the discovery of cosmic rays impacted our pop culture – even in the origin story of superheroes such as the Fantastic Four.

1945 – SOCIAL-DEMOCRAȚIA | Levos (YT video 2021)

spacetime coordinates: the world nowadays

Never posted anything from the Romanian net-sphere which is a pity. Here is an comprehensive video about social democracy nowadays going into its history, its avatars and current conundrums. It tries to make light in one of the most contentious subjects of recent Romanian history from a leftist perspective, which is quite rare. Most things regarding PSD are clearly centrist and usually completely missing out the historical or global systemic dimension of the subject matter. PSD does not demonized or bashed in the usual way – the tensions and contradictions are made evident in a specific dialectical way. Maybe I have a problem with the technical specifics, the speed of the voice and the way it is drowned inside the barrage of sound, but otherwise we need more of these and more meme friendly political analysis in the manner of dezarticast.