Influencer Society and Its Future
September 27, 2021
Get Tedpilled on Unabomber stan TikTok.
John Semley
John Semley is a writer and researcher based in Philadelphia.
Against the Universe
July 16, 2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.
America, Ex Post Facto
In April 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic phase-shifted America, and the world, into a grim, new reality, a story circulated via the AP wire about a post office in the microscopically small town of Deer Isle, Maine. There, a tattered American flag had been left to languish atop ...
Portrait of the Artist as Content Creator
December 15, 2020
On Mank and The Godfather Coda.
No Man Is an Island
September 15, 2020
Martin Eden rails against the cult of individualism.
The Dragon Rises Yet Again
September 2, 2020
Reexamining the triumphs and tragedies of Bruce Lee.
Brief Encounters
June 1, 2020
Rethinking inscrutability in two recent festival hits.
Against Virtuosity
February 12, 2020
Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...