Category Archives: Cronenberg
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
Passing Across The Dead Zone and Moving Towards The Dread Zone
It is early 1974, “in Washington, Richard Nixon was being pressed slowly into a corner, wrapped in a snarl of magnetic tapes. […] In Room 619 of the Eastern Maine Medical Center, Johnny Smith still slept. He had begun to
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
The Correlation Between Freud, Cronenberg, Identical Twins, Gynecology and Videodrome Tapes
Dead Ringers With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
Consequences of Messing With Nature: Cronenberg, Lacan, Klein
With the aim of changing the past, an impossible thing to do, the subject messes with nature, and his intrusion causes the very event which he was trying to prevent from happening. Just like Oedipus’s father who, in escape from
Consequences of Messing With Nature: Cronenberg, Lacan, Klein
With the aim of changing the past, an impossible thing to do, the subject messes with nature, and his intrusion causes the very event which he was trying to prevent from happening. Just like Oedipus’s father who, in escape from
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (1) – Naked Lunch and The Body Without Organs
organ without a body The Naked Lunch I am concerned with here is David Cronenberg’s film about William Burroughs’ writing process of Naked Lunch. The film, rather than being a direct adaptation of the novel, is a distillation of Burroughs’s
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (2) – The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton
The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton It is a recurrent theme in science-fiction-thriller movies that in time humanity turns into the slave of its own creation, namely of machines. It is precisely because of this fear of being replaced
Cronenberg, Burroughs, Deleuze (2) – The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton
The Evil Spirit and The Spiritual Automaton It is a recurrent theme in science-fiction-thriller movies that in time humanity turns into the slave of its own creation, namely of machines. It is precisely because of this fear of being replaced
The Subject Turning Against Itself
Cengiz Erdem With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own
The Subject Turning Against Itself
Cengiz Erdem With Dead Ringers (1988) Cronenberg shows the consequences of an attempt to get rid of the space between the me and the not me. The illusory absence of difference between Mantle twins Beverly and Elliot is their own


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