Archive - Paradox Newsletter

Issue #372: Refining the Macrodata of the Severance Season Two Finale

The last of the weekly Severance coverage, to the relief of my readership.

Mar 25 •

Issue #371: How Many Lacanians Does It Take to Plug in an HDMI Cable?

Do you want to know what went down at the LACK V conference in Columbus, Ohio? Or would you like a Severance recap? You can have both in this week's…

Mar 18 •

Issue #370: Severance's Shortest Episode Cuts Deep

Severance coverage continues, along with a barrage of TV reviews and a less fun postscript.

Mar 11 •

Issue #369: The Oscar Goes to GQuuuuuuX

The Oscars are my Super Bowl.

Mar 4 •

February 2025

Issue #368: Does Severance Think Women Are Enemies of Civilization?

If you wanted an even more detailed Freudo-Lacanian elaboration of Severance than I usually delivered, you'll get what you bargained for this week.

Feb 25 •

Issue #367: Severance, The Trojan Horse, and Three Children in a Trench Coat

This is the fifth consecutive week of me writing about Severance (2022).

Feb 18 •

Issue #366: Severance Rewrites Freud's Totem and Taboo Using a Da Vinci Code Plot Device

You deserve a different order of Severance recap. And you'll get it from Paradox Newsletter.

Feb 11 •

Issue #365: Severance Dives into Race, Face First

Severance's second season is firing on all cylinders and so am I.

Feb 4 •

January 2025

Issue #364: Narrative Traps and the Unconscious in Severance

This week, writing about Severance and Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story

Jan 28 •

Issue #363: Severance Has the Secret to Being Happy at Work

Severance, Bad Bunny, Durkalini, and David Lynch, all on MLK Day.

Jan 21 •

Issue #362: The Philosophy of Video Game Speedrunning

Philosophizing the most demanding form of the video game hobby.

Jan 14 •

Issue #361: The Exacting Gaze of Fincher's Seven (1995)

Paradox Newsletter reviews Balatro and revisits Fincher's Seven on the occasion of its IMAX screenings.

Jan 7 •

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