Paraskevi Siamitrou

By Paraskevi Siamitrou Yesterday, I went to see Yorgos Lanthimos' new movie, Bugonia. Lanthimos seems to be taking upon contemporary issues, and making them absurd, grotesque with a crippling violence. And I understand that this artistic point of view contemplates capitalism, the ruthlessness of it. Citizen and consumer lines are fuzzy. A subjectivity composed of a gruesome Big Other, capital accumulation, signifiers and language attuned to the very big desire: produce, relentlessly. In a...

Written by Paraskevi Siamitrou The frequency of the word “reimagine”  has skyrocketed in recent years, as visualised below. ( Reimagine, V. Meanings, Etymology and More | Oxford English Dictionary , n.d.) Yet it feels somewhat lukewarm as a word, perhaps because it implies repetition. My mind goes to the repetition of pre-existing epistemologies, the same knowledge systems that led us to this first place of imagination: who imagined the solutions in the beginning? And who provides us with new...