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Elegies to Failed Revolutions: Tasting Ashes
Notes on Grief, Trauma, Suffering and Loss
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Tom Pazderka
April 2023
Cracking Capitalism
Myth and labor in 'Inventing Anna' - by Thomas Travers
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Tom Pazderka
ASP Shorts: Humans vs Tech
Welcome to the ‘Shorts’ section of A Secret Plot. Shorts will be entirely dedicated to news snippets, stories not long enough to warrant an entire…
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Tom Pazderka
March 2023
The Esoteric Files: Why Do We Say 'Back East?'
The origins of a non-geographical location
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Tom Pazderka
February 2023
Dead Internet Theory
The internet is dead! Long live the internet!
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Tom Pazderka
Special Announcement – ‘Looking West’ @ Santa Monica Art Museum during Frieze week
Semi-regular posts will resume next week
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Tom Pazderka
December 2022
Dahmer Girls
Two shows on Netflix represent peak 1990s nostalgia for the last decade of hope.
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Tom Pazderka
October 2022
Society of the Spectacle - Redux
Re-reading Guy Debord's (in)famous book
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Tom Pazderka
Completing the Unresolved Plot of History
Theory, Politics, and Literature in Ricardo Piglia's 'The Way Out' - By Thomas Travers
Aesthetics of Collapse
The secret updates
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Tom Pazderka
July 2022
Elegies to Failed Revolutions: The Antipolitics of Hiking
“Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder leads to it.” - Henry David Thoreau
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Tom Pazderka
May 2022
Like Share and Subscribe: The Death of God in the Age of Social Media
Nietzsche and Lacan on the nature of reality and the algorithm
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Tom Pazderka
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