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Contemporaries Essays, Reading Disco Elysium
Contemporaries Essays, Reading Disco Elysium
Reading Games
In Kogonada’s debut feature film, Columbus (2017), two librarians take a brief moment away from the Dewey Decimal system to talk about reading and gaming. Considering their bookish nature, one…
Contemporaries Essays, Reading Disco Elysium
Therapy Simulator 2019
“Your shit is apart, and it’s rather unbecoming of a cop and a human being. It’s supposed to be the opposite of that: together.” So says the diegetically ambiguous voice…
Contemporaries Essays, Reading Disco Elysium
Introduction to Reading Disco Elysium
Inland Empire: DETECTIVEEsprit-De-Corps: ARRIVINGAuthority: ON THE SCENE Disco Elysium (2019) is an open-world roleplaying video game that opens with a familiar premise: the player character wakes up in a motel room with no…
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Contemporaries Essays, Locating Lorine Niedecker
Contemporaries Essays, Locating Lorine Niedecker
Rueful Proximities: Lorine Niedecker, Queer Affection, and Lyric Drag
Lorine is not Bette nor Billie nor Marlene nor Lena nor Joan nor Judy. But, she is a queer icon. Niedecker’s iconicity stems from the distinctiveness of her habitus and…
Contemporaries Essays, Locating Lorine Niedecker
Cleaning Women: Occupational Health and Broken Solidarities
For almost seven years, from February 1, 1957 until her marriage in 1963, Lorine Niedecker worked as a cleaner at the Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital. She was 53 years old…
Contemporaries Essays, Locating Lorine Niedecker
Another Long Stretch of Geologic Time: Lorine Niedecker’s “Lake Superior”
“Probably all it means is another long stretch of geologic time before anything really gets printed. The only time the lava flows is those moments while the poems are being…
Contemporaries Essays, Locating Lorine Niedecker
Poet’s Poet: Hoa Nguyen Alongside Lorine Niedecker
From the secret notes I must tilt upon pressure execute and adjust1 One doesn’t possess poetry or a poet. Poet’s poet: does this mean a famous unknown celebrated by other relative unknowns?…