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#559 - Dead and Loving It (Patreon)

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2024-09-16 15:20:29
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Content

What if we appified death? What if we commodified grieving? In David Cronenberg's new film THE SHROUDS (2024), entrepreneurialism comes for the hereafter. PLUS: Reflections on the Trump-Harris debate.

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Comments

Kijib

can’t believe Trump pulled another Bob Roberts after the debate smh

Jeremy Hawkins

I think that the hopelessness is stemming from the fact that it's genuinely hopeless to reform the democratic party and that is the horizon for the majority of people. I've talked to so many people who talk about how they still get fundraising emails from Bernie for Kamala who while they still obviously appreciate him basically feel like those emails are a reminder of the futility of that idea. The hope is still there in the burgeoning labor movement, but there is this looming cliff of despair in the fact that even the best labor leaders are still 100% behind the democrats. The bright spot with that is that labor is actually a terrain where socialists can rise to the top, workers have a much better grasp of their power as individuals and as groups and potentially find avenues to stop endorsing the same candidate as Dick Cheney and organize the unorganized.

Yvette Enilom

I kinda want to defend the celebrity memoir as like a form from and for the female perspective? Like to me it is co-equal to the romance novel as the buttressing of the American publishing industry that kinda gets (in my opinion) misogynistically shat on because the subject primarily female

Yvette Enilom

Not trying to call u out just like as a fan I feel like the intense emotion that can be shared between writer (and ghostwriter) and reader is real and the true lives of women even powerful rich women is an important and kinda revolutionary subject no matter the era

Yvette Enilom
>>149615056

Sorry if this doesn’t make sense I’m making it on my ten min break just really wanted to voice this

Matthew Coles Polistina

Unfortunate position expressed by Luke concerning the Israeli film. The question was whether it’s appropriate in principle to screen the film and he simply replies that he’d have to watch it. Luke has at best aired tepid criticisms of Israel. There’s also no de-politicizing culture. It’s right-wing to think politics and culture can be separate domains.

Michael and Us
>>149614873

You'll definitely get no argument from me there. I think the memoir format can be executed wonderfully and, in the same way some literature gets pejoratively cast as "mere chick lit" or whatever, the same kind of sexist typecasting can also be applied to memoirs by famous women. I do think, however, that many celebrity memoirs —regardless of the gender of the author — are ghostwritten cash grabs these days so sometimes it's defensible to treat some of them as basically unserious. - Luke

emalco

Should American films, especially those financed in part by US government grants, be programmed at TIFF? Discussions like the one at the top of the show often reveal the degree to which US culture serves like a reserve currency — the country’s cultural and economic hegemony means it’s almost unthinkable to include it in these debates over when film festival censorship is warranted, despite the US’s complicity in or responsibility for genocide and human rights abuses.

murt pie

Luke, to what extent do you think any speculation about the election is completely moot? I have every expectation that in some swing state they'll dispute the results and put the election in the hands of the Supreme Court. And we know how they'll go. I just feel like the right has done too much to build this infrastructure around Trump to let it go any other way.

10KBC

I mean, a film festival supposedly has some curation , and via good curation different thoughts and aesthetic modes can be explored. Lazy, shitty curation is when there is no such program. A curator doesn’t have to take a political orientation but because a curator mediates between art and institutions they are obliged to at least think about it and ideally do some research. Curation is decidedly more discursive than art and should be held to some intellectual standards that art gets the privilege to evade if art wants to. I haven’t followed these TIFF controversies but a good locus of critique is the curator or lack of one. Where are the curators to defend these programmatic choices? Probably aren’t any real ones

Graeme Pente
>>149644381

Damn. I hadn't been thinking of that, but I find it exceedingly plausible.

Graeme Pente

I appreciate how well you struck a balance between discussing the film's content and themes on the one hand and leaving plenty for a viewing.

Jeremy Mele

I’m genuinely curious; why DO ghouls like Dick Cheney endorse Harris who is at least nominally to the left of Trump? Is it just a manners thing? They like what Trump stands for, but they can’t stand how he expresses it? Is it about stability for big business? Is it just about having been personally slighted by Trump?

Jordan

The University of Waterloo also issued a "no more statements" statement last week.

Matthew Coles Polistina
>>149620764

Read Walter Benjamin, folks: “Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. [...] Mankind, which in Homer’s time was a spectacle for the Olympian gods, has become one for itself. [...] Communism responds by politicizing art.”

Mid-Sized SeDan
>>149687393

I am a simple rube however I think the "nominally" is an important distinction, I'm not sure that if the candidate were Bernie Sanders you would see someone like Cheney endorse him. I think these ghouls are at the end of the day creatures of the establishment, and given the choice between someone nominally on the left but actually doesn't represent an institutional threat, and someone who has all the baggage you mentioned, they're gonna go with the former.

Mid-Sized SeDan
>>149687393

Not to say Bernie Sanders is an institutional threat, you know what I mean, that's how he's seen on the right

Blank

Somehow missed this ep but you guys have been hitting it out of the park lately with the political analysis. Consider my beliefs Marxism (LS-WS)