“Passata Remoto” is an Italian term for events or actions in the remote past that may not necessarily hold relevance in the present.
cultural criticism
Exposure Culture: Inside Egghead Republic’s Apocalypse of Ambition
Egghead Republic is a surreal satire set in a reimagined 2004, where the Cold War culminated in an atomic bomb being dropped on Soviet Kazakhstan.
My Genes Are Blue: How American Eagle and Dunkin’ Are Selling Whiteness
Something uncanny has procured itself in the cultural consciousness of American media in the past week, a tonal shift that, although unsurprising given the current political climate, feels jarringly regressive and reactionary; the tipping point, undoubtedly, being American Eagle’s latest campaign featuring Sydney Sweeney as the white all-American temptress clad in denim.