Archive for December, 2024

On the Other Side of the Screen

“I saw you on my TV. You were looking right at me.” — “G’Day Melbourne,” The Leftovers, season 2, episode 4. Halfway through the second season of The Leftovers, Kevin drinks…

After The Leftovers

There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division…

“Nothing is Next”: After The Leftovers, After Extinction

In his introduction to the edited volume After Extinction, Richard Grusin questions the chronologically linear assumptions of extinctive thought: “Is extinction something that only happens belatedly, after there are already…