Tag: art criticism

“Some Thoughts On Genre”

At The Harvest Maid’s Revenge, Rowan Lee shares some excellent thoughts on “folk horror” and the limits of generic definitions. “The more I know about folk horror, the less I understand about how it works. Maybe those of us who spend our time thinking about it are just […]

“Let People Enjoy This Essay”

At Gawker, B.D. McClay writes about “letting people enjoy things,” fan culture and detachment and “becoming a better snob.” “The paradox of a wide-open digital publishing field is that it has tended more and more toward consensus, with its two modes being the rave and the takedown, instead […]

“We Are Not Colonists”

At Boing Boing, Gita Jackson writes about gaming, art, minority voices, colonialism and Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities”: “When marginalized voices come to take their seat at the table, there will always be an outcry that they are invaders, colonists, inferior versions of their straight, white male counterparts. But […]