Series
What the Hit Show Severance Is Really About
Severance centers on Lumon Industries’ radical procedure that severs employees’ work memories from their personal lives, creating two distinct selves—an unknowing “Innie” trapped in a mysterious office complex, and an…
Murderbot and the Violence of Being Misread
Murderbot is not a story about a machine becoming human. It is a story about a person trapped inside a category designed to make personhood invisible.
Television
Television is more than a screen. For most of the twentieth century it was a distribution system: scheduled programmes sent by terrestrial broadcast, cable or satellite into homes, organised by broadcasters and…