A.Mitts
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“Death is both a limit – and, simultaneously, on the level of design, not an end but a way for the text to be” Eugenie Brinkema – Life-Destroying Diagrams Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is a film mired in its own ending. If there’s something I remember about my first time seeing it, it’s how much I…
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“I am only an empty irritation” Georges Bataille, Inner Experience Perhaps, on being confronted with the history of philosophy, it is a reasonable reaction to simply shrug. After all, what do these old dead writers have to offer us beyond some kind of perpetual slew of questions. If we want to live our lives, what…
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In my writing on horror so far, I have, probably unavoidably, left a succession of terms and concepts by the wayside. When I first wrote something on the subject, it was almost absentmindedly, in response to a particular discussion and an attempt to link that discussion to something broader. As these things tend to happen,…
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Horror, as I’ve established previously, rests on a knife edge. It attempts to address an object it cannot, evokes a beyond it cannot access, and insodoing emerges from a schism. In what way, however, is it reasonable to think an aesthetic experience unmasks some kind of knowledge? If the theatre of horror plays out an…
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An episode of the x-files, titled “Irresistible”, presents a conflict between the show’s fundamental preoccupation with the paranormal and real, actually existing horror. The episode, which revolves around a completely human serial killer, eschewing monsters and aliens entirely, ends on a voiceover from Mulder; “It’s been said that the fear of the unknown is an…
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“Do more stuff” was what I said to myself at the close of 2020. Unremarkable aim perhaps, but the best I can muster as the consensus of decades has a panic attack outside my window. The kind of sickening optimism Boris Johnson was hawking at the opening of the year seems to have heralded in,…
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One of the most powerfully unsettling moments in Bloodborne occurs during the latter half of the game. By this point, the Bram Stoker gothic trappings have largely given way to increasingly cosmic implications, and it’s quite obvious that one, multiple or all voices leading you through the world have been misleading you. The Healing Church,…
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It’s been far too long since I wrote anything here, and it’s about time I rectified this. Some of the reasons are typical, perhaps too boring to go into, and I have no particular wish to sit here on a self-constructed couch and recount my worries to an imaginary therapist. Suffice to say, things have…
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The conspiracy is a channelling of unbound paranoia. The figure is a stark one, a lonely silhouette surrounded by an ever-expanding patchwork of figures, scraps and immaterial connections, furtively checking the street outside for shadowy figures, helicopters in the sky, strange sounds through the walls. The conspiracy addled paranoiac is an entrenched figure in popular…
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Multiple instances recently I’ve tried to search for a piece of music on streaming services [in this instance spotify, but pick your poison], and either the version I found there was surpassed by one I found out in the wilds, uploaded to youtube or what have you, or it was nowhere to be found. Times…