Category: Arthur Mulder
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Analogies of Otherness
Read more: Analogies of OthernessWhalers, by J. M. W. Turner Few of us face our feelings head on. Polite euphemisms and humor are draped over that which stings us as habitually as tablecloth over tabletop. I am not here to argue we should all stare at the naked timber, tracing the growth-ring grooves in the wood without fear or…
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The ‘then leave’-Mentality and the Death of American Optimism
Read more: The ‘then leave’-Mentality and the Death of American OptimismWhalers, by J. M. W. Turner America, like any place on earth, is problem-riddled, and has been from the start. No matter where we claim that beginning to be; whether it’s the moment Pangea split open and the world unfurled into its current shape, ravenous magma regurgitating up out of cracked tectonic plates; or when…
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The Art of Categorizing Creation
Read more: The Art of Categorizing CreationDiagrams from Laurence Sterne representing “the lines I moved in through my first, second, third, and fourth volumes.” Part 1: Theory Section I, or Why This Article Has Two Parts, Four Sections, and an Intermission We have been dividing stories into chewable bites for as long as we’ve been telling them. Perhaps most famously with…
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The Post-Covid Action Hero
Read more: The Post-Covid Action HeroIt is a little presumptuous to say we are in the post-covid period. New variants still sprout up quicker than we can weed them out; we are not out of the woods yet, but I naively hope we can see the forest’s edge emerging from between the distant dark-leaved birches. Culturally, what covid’s lasting effects…
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The Beauty and the Bland of Robin Hood
Read more: The Beauty and the Bland of Robin HoodIn the realm of pop culture analysis, like with most things, a lot of attention is given to few, and little attention is given to most. There are countless analyses of The Shining, ranging from ruminations on cinematography and set-design to theories about its depiction of Native Americans and its links to the moon landing,…
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