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She more epitomizes the empty narcissism of wealth, which can be extrapolated to reality TV at large. Personalities like this are bred on reality shows precisely because there's the promise of money, which in the age of surveillance is most often correlated with performing the role of an Awful Human Being.

She more epitomizes the empty narcissism of wealth, which can be extrapolated to reality TV at large. Personalities like this are bred on reality shows precisely because there's the promise of money, which in the age of surveillance is most often correlated with performing the role of an Awful Human Being.

Wait, so what you're saying is that David Foster Wallace is terrible because he finds many things to be terrible? Which is what makes him terrible?

Wait, so what you're saying is that David Foster Wallace is terrible because he finds many things to be terrible? Which is what makes him terrible?

Yes.

Yes.

But in large part the presentation of research and information (especially the footnotes) is the point of Wallace's work, especially in his fiction. The blending of fiction and non-fiction, and therefore reality and fantasy, was one of the last great innovations of the postmodernist movement and speaks to late 20th…

But in large part the presentation of research and information (especially the footnotes) is the point of Wallace's work, especially in his fiction. The blending of fiction and non-fiction, and therefore reality and fantasy, was one of the last great innovations of the postmodernist movement and speaks to late 20th…

THERE'S Bret Easton Ellis

THERE'S Bret Easton Ellis

Pretty sure that if we get said poster it will actually *be* noted prolific internet personality Bret Easton Ellis.

Pretty sure that if we get said poster it will actually *be* noted prolific internet personality Bret Easton Ellis.

What a wildly specific and terribly disturbing image you've just cultivated in my poor brain

What a wildly specific and terribly disturbing image you've just cultivated in my poor brain

Teeth.

Teeth.

@avclub-2dd796a41e5de222849fca4595911404:disqus @avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Go read Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp." As long as camp is artificial and ridiculous, it can be anything — including sleazy. A lot of violence is insanely campy; think Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Pulp Fiction, Cannibal…

@avclub-2dd796a41e5de222849fca4595911404:disqus @avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Go read Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp." As long as camp is artificial and ridiculous, it can be anything — including sleazy. A lot of violence is insanely campy; think Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Pulp Fiction, Cannibal…

To be serious about this, horror is becoming gradually more and more aware of its relationship to female bodies and I don't get much of an exploitative vibe, aside from the basic use of women's bodies. I get the feeling Wood will be the unquestioned villain, and that making the film from his point of view will only…