They Live: Why Zizek’s Hero Is Ideology’s Perfect Subject
They Live is not the story of an anti-capitalist’s awakening—it’s the story of Nada’s psychotic break and descent into a new ideological trap.
Why I Love My Apartment Complex’s Shitty Elevators
When your elevator fails, so does ideology. In that rupture and failure, we may be able to find something better: human connection.
How Football Became a Surveillance State: VAR, Control, & Tactics
From VAR in football to digital surveillance in daily life, tactics evolve under constant watch. But when control tightens, people adapt.
Family Guy’s Incestuous Makeout: Lacanian Psychoanalysis 101
Family Guy’s makeout scene shows how desire is shaped by language and repression. Lacanian psychoanalysis explains why attraction shifts.
Why Bar Rescue’s Jon Taffer Is TV’s Best Psychoanalyst
Jon Taffer isn’t just saving bars—he’s forcing owners to confront their failures, encounter the Real, and restructure their Symbolic world.
The National Front Disco: Belonging and the Allure of Extremism
Morrissey’s The National Front Disco explores how identity, belonging, and social rituals pull people into extremism—without moralizing.
Morrissey & Nationalism: Cocaine Socialism at The National Front Disco
Morrissey’s nationalism isn’t what you think. From Cocaine Socialism to The National Front Disco, explore the battle for British identity.
Jacky’s Only Happy When She’s Up On The Stage: Nationalism as Performance
Morrissey’s Jacky’s Only Happy frames nationalism as performance—rooted in loss, and the desperate search for identity through spectacle.
I Wish You Lonely: The Machinery of Nationalist Sacrifice
Morrissey’s I Wish You Lonely exposes how nationalism mythologizes sacrifice to sustain itself while those in power remain untouched.
My Love, I’d Do Anything for You: Recognizing Ideology
Morrissey’s My Love, I’d Do Anything for You dismantles the illusion of freedom, exposing ideology as a cage we mistake for choice.