Ilana Davis

What do the cinematic marvels of Christopher Nolan have in common with SpongeBob SquarePants (arguably a cinematic marvel in its own right)? Probably nothing. Until you look deeper into The Odyssey filmmaker’s filmography and begin to see patterns between some of Nolan’s biggest blockbusters in correlation with Nickelodeon’s long-running animated series about a sponge. A good conspiracy (or rather, thought experiment) works best when the evidence comes in groups of threes. Three coincidences...

A Foucauldian reading of Industry and the quiet ways power reshapes identity, desire, and ambition under the guise of meritocracy.

How can Carl Jung's philosophy explain Marvel's Thunderbolts movie?