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Against Music Festivals
And why I think Auckland’s Laneway Festival will be miserable despite its lineup being good
Sep 23
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On Anticolonial Film and Literature
And two African works that I like, one Senegalese and one Nigerian
Sep 16
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On Antipodean Art That I Like
And how it reflects the truth of our grisly colonial founding
Sep 5
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August 2025
On Colonial Film Criticism
And how our small, settler economy disincentivizes being mean
Aug 19
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The Case for Intellectualism
And why we're dead without it
Aug 6
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July 2025
On Antipodean Anti-Intellectualism
And how our settler-colonial identity makes it different than other places'
Jul 27
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Fuck James Gunn
And his cynical, cash-grabbing genocide exploitation
Jul 14
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The Strangeness of Instagram Running Clubs
And why the platform's antithetical to community sports
Jul 9
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On Kogonada, Automation, and Attention
And why "After Yang" is a great movie about AI
Jul 3
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June 2025
On Death Cab for Cutie
And how the band captured the sound of distance
Jun 23
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On the Stupidity of Anti-Chinese Racism
And how it could get us all killed
Jun 19
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Nathan Fielder and the Laws of Discomfort
On the 2015 interview that helped me understand Nathan Fielder
Jun 11
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