Article by Sean Callaghan. Some thoughts on Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained coupled with my own brief, alternative history of violence in the Western. (Note: Spoiler alert for Django, Django Unchained, and Shane – though by now I think most people are familiar with the poignant last scene of Shane.) The Critics Quentin Tarantino is at […]
Read more "Violence Unchained – Quentin Tarantino Rewrites the Western"By Mark McConaghy Some of our most mundane activities- watching hockey, taking in an awards show- can reveal to us how ideology operates in our current society. Taking a moment to think about why we invest emotionally in certain things reveals a crucial problem that we must face as progressive intellectuals: the traditional understanding of […]
Read more "On What Being an Oiler Fan Teaches You About Ideology"By Sean Callaghan. I used to love watching the Oscars. I used to wait the whole year in anticipation of drinking in the glitz and the glamor. I can’t do it anymore. Here are some of the reasons why. 1. Ricky Gervais. He changed awards shows forever. 2. It’s an event that lauds people who […]
Read more "Top Ten Reasons why I Didn’t Watch the Oscars This Year"From the 2012 Brave New Voices Competition. Article by Sean Callaghan Before I say why I love this spoken word performance, let me put this in context. It seems like I’ve been reading and writing a great deal about race in the last little while. My article on Quentin Tarantino’s new flic Django Unchained came […]
Read more "It Was Never Just About Race"Article by Sean Callaghan. In which I ask a simple question: what if there is no elephant? ————————————- I recently had the opportunity to speak to a group of men who had achieved a high degree of success working in the corporate sphere, and I just couldn’t resist asking them how they would respond to […]
Read more "The Other Side of Impossible"By Mark McConaghy Human connection is often posited as the source of fundamental meaning in our lives. And indeed, it is: without our family, partners, and friends we would face nothing but the competition, loneliness, and anger of our market-driven professional lives. And yet what if just “being a good person” is not enough? What […]
Read more "On Friendship"A list of Westerns with something more to say than “bang bang! your dead!” by Sean Callaghan I love running down a list and checking off the things I’ve done. I also love Westerns. So here’s something that joins these two loves together. This list is not organized based on general watchability, though. In each […]
Read more "Top Five: Westerns with Edge"
The 14th Floor 