What is Identity?

In short, I have discussed identity as something inscribed upon a person, but the nature of that inscription has been left somewhat blank. That’s primarily due to the complicated nature of identity: people are free to behave as they will, but what we will is somewhat pre-determined. This isn’t to say that we aren’t free to choose things, but that our identity makes it more likely that we will choose different things.

Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 16, 2022Identity, Dis-Identity Politics, Deleuze and Guattari, Alphaville, Jean-Luc Goddard, Peter Cheyney, hard boiled fiction, Film Noir, Translation, OODA loop, Machinic Unconscious, Navajo Nation, Surrealism, Animal CognitionComment

Unpacking the Trash Can of Genre: Practical Literary Theory

When you select a genre and decide your going to produce a book, comic, film, or similar within it, you’re essentially taking a whole set of unexamined assumptions and saying that you’re going to abide by them to the exclusion of everything else. This is a mistake.

Analysis, Literary Theory, Written by: CameronCameron SummersNovember 18, 2019genre, hard boiled fiction, OuLiPo, Red Harvest, Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing, Disco Elysium, Sherlock holmes, Pride and Prejudice, Ghost in the Shell, Detective fiction, Cyberpunk, Mad MaxComment