Wisecrack 2

Severance and the Horrors of Corporate Culture Severance captivated audiences with its eerie metaphor about splitting your brain between a “work” self and a “life” self. But what if this sci-fi dystopia isn’t so different from our own world? And what if taking a closer look at the corporate world of Lumon can actually tell us a lot about what it means to be a worker today? Let’s explore in this deep dive into season one of Severance.

Can A Movie About Catholicism Have Radical Politics? Conclave is a movie about priests fighting to see who gets to be the next pope that directly parallels the debates and battles in contemporary politics. In setting up a contest between potential popes, the movie explores the tensions between tradition and progress, exclusivity and inclusivity. But at its heart, it offers a theory of truth that fundamentally challenges the logic of modern religious and political institutions. So can a movie about one of the most patriarchal and hierarchical institutions in the world teach us something about radical politics? We’ll find out in this video on Conclave and the Truth of Religion.

Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Myth of Incel Gamers It’s common to associate video games with violence and antisociality. But what if we’ve got that exactly backwards, and what if the most popular game of 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 can reveal the power of video games not to merely entertain us, but to actively make us better people? We’ll explain in this video on how video games make us more moral human beings.

The White Lotus spotlights privileged tourists, and the working class people who serve their every whim. But what if the real star of the show isn’t any one person, but the eponymous resort itself? This video will show how the way the characters navigate the spaces they inhabit at the resort offers insight into the socioeconomic implications of tourism, and the power struggles inherent to it.