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PAST LIVES (2023)

Join us and Bar Luzon (Philosophy, MIT) to discuss Celine Song’s film PAST LIVES. We talk about immigration, love, irresistible freely chosen love, imagination and narrative in self understanding, counterfactual thinking, and never going home… This is where I ended up. This is where I’m supposed to be. Nora

ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)

In space, no one can hear you deepfake a dead actor into your movie! We’re joined by Scout Tafoya to talk Alien: Romulus. We discuss the film’s thematic resonances with the Alien franchise, immigration, the fear of undifferentiation, psychoanalytic readings of the alien, human/android relationships, orphans in space, and go on many long rants aboutContinue reading “ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)”