Research Paper
I’ve been writing and re-writing my research paper for ages now. It’s been through several different permutations, always about the Real World/Digital World divide and about the Apple TV+ show Severance, but with a slightly different angle each time. I believe, however, that I am done now. There are...
Seattle Metamodernism Summit Sept 10-11 2022
I had a great time at the Seattle conference! I met loads of people I was very keen to meet and did my talk at the end of the first day on the Metamodernism in Popular Culture panel. My talk – like my research paper – is on the...
Severance- Separation from Space
The representation of space in the Apple TV+ series Severance mirrors the strange relationship we have with our 21st century territory, which is split between the real and digital worlds and split between Modernist and Postmodern thinking. When we are in the grand, brutalist space of the Perpetuity Wing...
Severance – Separation from Time
In 2014, Mark Fisher in Ghosts of My Life [1]Fisher, M., 2014. Ghosts Of My Life. Alresford (UK): Zero books. wrote about the idea of a pining for ‘lost futures’- the idea that during the Modern era we had a collective vision of the future, but as postmodernity removed...