“The Past Dictates the Future”: Epistemic Ambivalence and the Compromised Ethics of Complicity in Twin Peaks: The Return and Fire Walk with Me

In this paper I explore questions of epistemology and complicity in Twin Peaks: The Return with reference to the original series and to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. I characterize these works as auto-exegetical texts (texts that critically read themselves), and I introduce the notion of epistemic...

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Main Author: Joshua Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New York City College of Technology 2020-02-01
Series:NANO
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Online Access:https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue15/The-Past-Dictates-the-Future-Epistemic-Ambivalence-and-the-Compromised-Ethics-of-Complicity-in-Twin-Peaks-The-Return-and-Fire-W