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Channel: Cultural Consumption

Good stuff we're reading, watching, or listening to lately—from the editors of Metapsychosis and guest contributors

Graphic Novel Review: Utown

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 29 Jun 2023 Cultural Consumption Books Montreal, book-review, creativity, gentrification, graphic novel, translation

Coming from Montréal’s bustling scene of graphic-novel creators, Cab’s main character is a painter struggling with creative block while living semi-legally with his friends in a building on the verge of being condemned.

Film Review: Decision to Leave (2022)

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 31 May 2023 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews Korean cinema, crime, drama, film, secrets, thriller

A thrilling yet understated crime drama focused on the relationship between a police detective and a woman whose husband has died in a suspicious climbing accident, distinguished by the complexity of its characters.

Embrace the Overtone: momentarily records Cassette Drone Releases

By
  • Dean Wilcox
| 29 May 2023 Cultural Consumption, Features Music, Reviews Indian music, La Monte Young, cassette tapes, drone music, impermanence, indie labels, limited release, music history

These three inaugural releases from a label that “focuses on quality and works out subtle differences in each work” offer a range of sounds, textures, and objects to explore.

A Modern Fable: “I Never Liked You Anyway,” by Jordan Kurella

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 23 Apr 2023 Cultural Consumption Books, Reviews Greek Mythology, book-review, love, queer fiction, relationships

Jordan Kurella’s novella is a modern fable that bounces back and forth between a modern day university, a music department, and the nether world of Hades, the Greek version of Hell.

Fear Inoculum, album artwork by Alex Grey

Tool de Force

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 26 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Music, Reviews aging, gnostic, progressive metal, psychedelic rock, warrior archetype

Combining instrumental virtuosity, compositional complexity, and lyrical depth, Tool’s Fear Inoculum deserves not just a listen, but repeated listenings.

Departures (Film, 2008)

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 25 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Reviews Japanese film, burial practices, cello, death, film, grief

A quietly provocative story about a cellist who leaves the musical profession and finds a job preparing dead bodies for burial.

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Birth of the Uncool

By
  • Richard Andrews
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Music Miles Davis, art, ethics, jazz, moral dilemmas

Will I ever enjoy listening to Kind of Blue again knowing that Miles Davis abused and beat his wife when he was outside the recording studio?

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – book cover

Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Books, Reviews colonialism, gothic literature, historical fiction, horror, mexico, novel, speculative fiction

Appealing and fast-paced, this novel set in 1950s Mexico is a classic tale of an attractive young woman marrying into family with sinister secrets, who finds her choices taken away, and her life and sanity under threat. True to the gothic genre, the cr …

Party Wall, by Catherine Leroux (trans. from French by Lazer Lederhendler) – book cover

Party Wall, by Catherine Leroux

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 6 Mar 2023 Cultural Consumption Reviews Canadian Literature, family, québecois, secrets, short story, translation, writing craft

Insightful stories peel back the secrets within families, but the dazzling moment comes as you pass the midpoint of the book, and the connections between these universes begin to be revealed.

Cultural Consumption – February / March 2022

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Douglas Duff
| 4 Mar 2022 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

Fiction, films and search engines meet indigenous names and the chatter of jays; where does our attention wander when it strays on the dappled path?

CULTURAL CONSUMPTION: Stuff We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to—Dec 2021 / Jan 2022

By
  • Brigid Burke
  • Marco V Morelli
| 31 Dec 2021 Cultural Consumption Cinema, Reviews books, culture, movies, music, videos

Our bodies transform what we eat, and with our minds we re-create and transform culture. Here are some of the works that have gotten our attention recently and feel worth sharing.

Illustration: Jack Parsons in a screenshot from the video above.

“Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons – Movement II, Too the Moon” by The Claypool Lennon Delirium

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 21 Feb 2019 Cultural Consumption, Microdoses Audio, Music, Reviews, Video Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, NASA, Primus, Sean Lennon, South of Reality, Terry Gilliam, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, animation, occult, rock, rockets

The Claypool Lennon Delirium masterfully tells the story of rocket scientist/ occultist Jack Parsons.

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Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”Interpreting Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’

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Metapsychosis
| 12 Aug 2018 Cultural Consumption, Features Cinema

A series of writing and conversations exploring the many layers, folds, complexities, and intensities of director Darren Aronofsky’s disturbing tale of home invasion: mother!

Delusions, by Stanisław Kapuściński: A Review

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  • Philippa Rees
| 11 Jul 2017 Cultural Consumption Reviews Noetics (Mind/Spirit)

Kapuscinski’s intentions are early implied, to match Dawkins bite for bite and (as honestly) to demonstrate the irreconcilable gulf between intellectual reductionism and emotional religious dogmatism, each flailing towards fundamentalism in trying to flatten one another.

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