The overwhelming rise in political violence in America characterizes the birth of a new, terrifying era, which can only be resolved with empathy.
Tag: Violence
Girl Power: The consequences of female body horror in ‘The Substance’
“The Substance” uses body horror towards feminist ends — but does its graphic imagery also inadvertently create a spectacle out of female pain? Anna Peterson SC ’25 discusses this difficult tension.
Kit’s Controller Corner: Fighting the man who sold the world — Metal Gear Solid and the military-industrial complex
Video games are often accused of desensitizing violence. Video game columnist Kit Kumar CM ‘26 takes a look at “Metal Gear” and how the game criticizes senseless violence and the military industrial complex.
Rom-Com in Review: Eat your heart out in ‘Fresh’
Out with rom-coms, in with cannibalism. In the past several years, there’s been a slew of stories centered around cannibalism — think “Raw” and “Bones and All.” “Fresh” does both, writes columnist Nadia Hsu PO ’27.
Thinking Its Presence conference confronts violence inflicted upon BIPOC psyche
From March 30 through April 2, the interdisciplinary conference “Thinking Its Presence: Racial Vertigo, BlackBrown Feelings, and Significantly Problematic Objects” took place at Pomona College. The 40+ events in the conference included BIPOC scholars, activists, artists and authors. Attendees engaged in workshops and panels combining aesthetic, spiritual, performance-based and conversational approaches to explore the violence inflicted upon the psyche and affective states of BIPOC individuals.
Let’s spill the pop culture tea: ‘Squid Game’ is more than just gory entertainment
The violence of “Squid Game” isn’t merely for entertainment value, rather it and other elements of the hit show provide a powerful critique of capitalism’s consequences, argues Anna Tolkien CM ’24.
‘The Act of Killing’ help us understand the wickedness inside ourselves
In his literary response to “The Act of Killing,” a 2012 documentary about the Indonesian mass murders of the late 1900s, Patrick Hutecker HM ’24 explores how easily reality can be twisted.
OPINION: It’s time to apologize for colonial atrocities
Colonial atrocities cannot be forgotten. There needs to be more recognition and discussion of the crimes committed in the name of colonialism.
Cartoon carnage — A cross-cultural analysis of child violence in animation
Anime has been showing a trend towards a more specific kind of violence — explicit violence toward children.