Category: severance
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The Architecture of Alienation: Severance and the Marxist Office-Space Nightmare
I’ve just finished season 1 of Severance, the Apple TV+ series and I must say, I’m impressed. The way it slices consciousness into ‘innie’ and ‘outie’ is a clear allegory of Marx’s concept of alienation, but for me (with my obdurate urban gegoraohy schooling) the architecture doesn’t just set the…