Logics of Desire in Search of an Exit: On Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman (2013) (opens in new tab)

Political theorist Michael Uhall offers a reading of Alex van Warmerdam's Borgman (2013) as a libidinal politics of exit, showing how the film stages the irruption of the feral Outside into late capitalist domesticity and what it means to leave yourself behind in order to leave at all.