GABBLER RECOMMENDS: TV Show Fleabag

Fleabag copes with that loss by breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to the camera. “She tries to keep her life humorous and amusing for the benefit of this audience that she has invited in,” Waller-Bridge says. ” … And eventually that relationship starts to break down in itself and she starts to regret bringing the audience in in the first place — because, of course, she has these secrets and these feelings of grief and misery underneath all the comedy.” –NPR.

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Dark MatterDark Matter by Blake Crouch
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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Che Gossett’s ‘Blackness, Animality, and the Unsovereign’

‘The zoo is a biopolitical apparatus, a carceral space undergirded by an anthropomorphic cultural imaginary. As Brain Massumi writes in What Can Animals Teach Us About Politics?, “The zoo is not simply a space of confinement…The horror of the visible stifling of the animals’ vitality is converted into fun.” Animals are anthropomorphized as having nuclear and domestic(ated) families and thus figured as a heteronormative spectacle. A powerful image of everyday resistance to animal incarceration that was in the news recently was where a panda feigned pregnancy to get access to more food and marginally less harmful carceral conditions – as a result a team of scientists had to reschedule their livestream of it after much laudatory heteronormalizing anthropomorphic zoo fan fare. Since its inception the zoo has also always (already) been a colonial and racial enterprise. The awful history of the anti-black racist and colonial exoticizing exhibitions of people of African descent alongside animals in zoos shows how for blackness the human/animal binary is not only collapsed but is in fact mutually reinforcing through the violence inherent in the racial-colonial grammar of animalization – how black people have been historically seen as beasts.’

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