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Reviewed: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (film, JJ Abrams, 2019) The Irishman (film, Martin Scorsese, 2019) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (film, Quentin Tarantino, 2019) ‘ok boomer’ (meme, the New York Times, 2019) The death of Jeffrey Epstein (hyperobject, Bill and Hillary Clinton, 2019) YA fiction (genre, JK Rowling et al., 1997) The 2010s (decade, Time, 2010) Industrial capitalism (mode of production, the World-Spirit, 1760) The Earth (planet, God, 4,543,000,000 BC) Myself (imbecile, God, 1990) The most interesting images in the new Star Wars films are the ones in which they literally ruin the original trilogy. There’s one in 2015’s The Force Awakens: the collapsed shell of a Star Destroyer, huge in the desert, jammed into the world at the wrong angle. There’s one in the most recent film, The Rise of Skywalker: the Death Star itself, its colossal eye fractured, splattered with seaweed on a savage moon. (2017’s The Last Jedi didn’t have any of these shots, which might be why it’s t

Teenage bloodbath: the 2010s in review | Idiot Joy Showland Idiot Joy Showland This is why I hate intellectuals Teenage bloodbath: the 2010s in review by Sam Kriss Death is grievance, and only grievance. Philip Roth (died 2018) Reviewed: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (film, JJ Abrams, 2019) The Irishman (film, Martin Scorsese, 2019) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (film, Quentin Tarantino, 2019) ‘ok boomer’ (meme, the New York Times , 2019) The death of Jeffrey Epstein (hyperobject, Bill and Hillary Clinton, 2019) YA fiction (genre, JK Rowling et al., 1997) The 2010s (decade, Time

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