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Stalker: the weight of faith on the road to the Room
Tarkovsky's Stalker opens like science fiction and ends as a study of belief. A reading of the Zone, the silence and the Room that is never entered.
Paterson and the poetry of the ordinary day
Jarmusch's Paterson treats repetition not as a flaw but as the rhythm of a poem. A reading of one bus driver-poet's week and the aesthetics of ordinary life.
Severance: separating work from life, surgically
Severance is a thought experiment in which a brain procedure splits work from private life. A reading of its first season through identity, consent and work culture.
The Wire: reading a city through its institutions
Each season of The Wire examines one Baltimore institution: the drug trade, the port, city hall, the schools and the press. A reading of the show's argument about institutional failure.
Succession: family, power and money
Succession follows the heirs of a media empire and shows how love, loyalty and money become tangled. A reading of the show's tragic structure, its camera and its score.
Dark: the time loop and determinism
Dark starts in a small town called Winden and uses a closed time loop to test free will against fate. A reading of the series' structure, its themes and its finale.
Bauman and liquid modernity: when all that is solid evaporates
Zygmunt Bauman's idea of liquid modernity describes the passage from a heavy, solid world to a light and changeable one. A reading of the metaphor through work, relationships and identity, and of its limits.
The Burnout Society: the individual who exploits themselves
Byung-Chul Han describes the move from a disciplinary society to an achievement society, in which the individual becomes their own boss. A reading of The Burnout Society, its present-day echoes and its limits.
Content with Claude, ownership with git: how this blog works
How this site is built: static pages generated by Astro, Markdown files kept in git, the Sveltia CMS panel, Pagefind search, Cloudflare hosting, and a writing flow in which Claude prepares the drafts.
Static site or Django? A cost comparison for a personal blog
Three ways to run a personal blog: a static site with Astro, Django on a cheap server, or a hybrid that pairs the Django admin with a static build. Prices are dated and taken from official pages.