Exploits Feature What’s the Message of “The Ugly Duckling” Anyways? By Raven Wu • February 28th, 2021 “It matters little to be born in a duck-yard when one comes from a swan’s egg!”
Exploits Feature RECOURSE: The Anthropocene Reviewed and Turtles All the Way Down By Autumn Wright • January 31st, 2021 Like Green’s novels, mine is not a love story.
Exploits Feature Two Minutes to Late Night – Bedroom Covers By Ed Coleman • January 3rd, 2021 Our pick for best thing on the internet that makes the pandemic bearable.
Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
Exploits Feature Feminine Flailing By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2020 It’s a representation of an archetypal feminine body, with little of the grace of that body’s tradition.
Exploits Feature Sewing Machines at Dawn By Hannah Copestake • October 1st, 2020 Welcome to one of my favorite movies and my ultimate revenge film: The Dressmaker.
Exploits Feature Hades By Diego Nicolás Argüello • September 1st, 2020 “Even though the gods have the power to grant him infinite strength, they choose to wield Zagreus as yet another pawn…”
The Case Against Reality By James K. Anderson • July 27th, 2020 Is human perception akin to a species-specific user interface?
Exploits Feature Legendary By Yussef Cole • July 1st, 2020 “Legendary is a show that does a great job highlighting artists and creatives and queer folk with caring attention, rather than crass appropriation.”
Exploits Feature She-Ra and the Princesses of Power By Violet Adele Bloch • April 1st, 2020 She-Ra is about to enter its fifth season, and that’s because it’s good. It’s one of the goodest shows ever produced.
Exploits Feature Modernism and Auto-Tune By Noah Springer • March 20th, 2020 “I see auto-tune playing the same role in hip hop in the last two decades as photography played in art in the 19th and early 20th century.”
Exploits Feature The Male Gaze is What’s Wrong with CATS, Actually By Violet Adele Bloch • March 2nd, 2020 “Apparently, as he was making his latest film, Tom Hooper thought a lot about fucking these cats. But only the female ones.”
Exploits Feature The Outsider By Stu Horvath • February 3rd, 2020 The strange case of two Holly Gibneys.
Exploits Feature The Goth Revival By Stu Horvath • January 2nd, 2020 When the end of that world is nigh, goths will make the music to dance to.
Exploits Feature Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special By Sara Clemens • December 2nd, 2019 Sara revisits the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special.
Exploits Feature No Laughing Matter By Violet Adele Bloch • November 1st, 2019 To me, Joker is like a theatrically released omen.
Exploits Feature Skeletons in the Closet By Sara Clemens • October 1st, 2019 “There’s always a chance to win in horror; there’s always light on the horizon, however distant. We hang in; we keep fighting.”
Exploits Feature The Fear of Saying No By Eleum Loughney • July 1st, 2019 “The man pontificates. American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman has an opinion and he has decided that it must be heard.”
Exploits Feature A Fable of Selfhood in the World of Tomorrow By Violet Adele Bloch • June 3rd, 2019 World of Tomorrow’s Emilies aren’t quite people . . . They’re one person split in two, and this blurs the line between Self and Other into nonexistence.
Exploits Feature A Seven-Year-Old’s Taste in Music By Ed Coleman • May 1st, 2019 “Having all the music in the world readily available has not stopped kids from obsessively playing their favorite songs over and over. And over. And over. And three more times.”
Exploits Feature Culture vs. Canon By Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm • April 2nd, 2019 A long running discussion about culture vs. canon between Gavin Craig and Elijah Beahm culminates in a thrilling head-to-head confrontation.
Exploits Feature You Were Never Really Here By Harry Mackin • March 4th, 2019 Harry Mackin explores the sound design of suffering in You Were Never Really Here.
Exploits Feature Opening Statement By Gavin Craig • February 1st, 2019 We experimented with a different format for this issue of Exploits. Gavin Craig explains.
Exploits Feature The Importance of Preservation By Khee Hoon Chan • January 3rd, 2019 The preservation of videogames’ short, albeit eventful, history is fraught with challenges, its very value undermined by the industry’s biggest companies
Exploits Feature “This is America” Parodies By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018 “This is America” has been made into a dire warning for more than just the United States.
Exploits Feature Unknown Influences By Noah Springer • September 4th, 2018 What happens when a fiction leaks out into the world and changes it?
Exploits Feature Would the Real Dark Troopers Please Stand Up By Elijah Beahm • August 1st, 2018 Canon is a tricky thing, even for the people making it. Evidence: the new, streamlined Star Wars franchise’s continuity confusion.
Exploits Feature Praying By Amanda Hudgins • July 2nd, 2018 “You had better hope that a higher power is ready to someday forgive you, it says, because I am not.”
Exploits Feature Art vs. Artist By Khee Hoon Chan • June 1st, 2018 There comes a point where death is too good for the artist.
Exploits Feature Not Enough Time By Stu Horvath • May 2nd, 2018 Look, we’re all going to die. The real tragedy is that we’ll leave unread books on the shelf when we do. Or is it?
Exploits Feature On Canon By Gavin Craig • April 2nd, 2018 If we must have canons, let’s build our own and blow them up every now and then.
