An error in the game was the realest feature. It formed a foundation. The developers thought how American. How reckless.
There’s a good case to be made that this is the least translatable German book of the last century.
The film cannot be said to be interested in persuading anybody of anything.
Queering the relationship between form and genre, troubling the notion of what makes a novel, working through questions of queerness and bodies and desire and space and language on the page.
The value of lived experience, an epistemological commodity I was assumed to have in quantity.
American cinema is nothing short of the dramatization of the desires and fears of an entire people.
If you have one hour and you write for that whole hour, suddenly there is a book or at least part of a book, and when you have part of a book, you can always finish it.
You're a man now, I'm your blanket.
Drug-eating is now drug consumption. Where "eating" implies a loamy process of co-constitution, "consumption" is a rote expression of your identity.
His resistance to canned models exposes the fragility of the sclerotic aesthetic order that reigned in his time.
The thing about surveillance, there's a lot of boredom in it. This was part of the attraction, I think, to becoming detectives.