Post-structuralisim and Post-- Just kidding. On Pixar's Onward and Bo Burnham's comedy.
So, I've been watching a lot of TV. At the beginning of this social distancing, I had about a hundred papers to mark, so the majority of my time when I wasn't working, was spent marking papers. I kept daydreaming about what I could be doing if I wasn't marking. I would read. I would write. I could just sit and think. My one friend told me he was writing a sort of philosophical outline for his personal life ethos, sort of thing, and I was like, "That. I want to do that." Well since I finished the marking, I've been watching TV. My kids were here on the weekend, and we watched Onward, Pixar's latest feature (which they released on Disney+ due to the pandemic), three times in three days. It's not their best effort, but it is the usual Pixar magic that takes a bit of a clicheic trope and twists it in a way that makes it meaningful. It's fun, and I'll definitely watch it again. Without spoiling it, it is a story of two brothers going on a ques...