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From “Billy How Did You Do It”

Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles - Bacurau (2019)

Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer - Empty Metal (2018)

As Korea’s present colonizer, the United States is implicated throughout "Parasite." No single character exemplifies Americanness definitively. Rather, Americanness is an aspirational status. The United States’ presence is thereby marked by its absence, which paradoxically illustrates the totalizing nature of its hegemony.

Reading Colonialism in “Parasite”

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Fears, Louise Bourgeois, 1992.

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[Museo Nacional de Rio de Janeiro]

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When one of the apartment buildings in the city center is demolished, though the space might remain entirely empty, a part of the naked wall remains attached to the buildings on either side of it like they couldn’t quite get it off all the way, and the variation of colors and wallpaper patterns, like a multi-colored screen, gives a sense of each of the rooms as they once were. If streets are also like this, the meetings of long ago will be stacked on one of those floors and the meetings to come will be suspended, or—following several times with my eyes the phrase “to keep in my heart,” in spite of my new leather shoes, my pace didn’t slow at all.

—Ryoko Sekiguchi [translated by LindsayTurner]

'Julio Iglesias's House' by Natalia Marín is a rich and sardonic take on the conflation between nationalism, idealism, and the built world, inspired by a 200...

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