The sadness of the rich
One actually cannot die from a broken heart. The rich have experimented on this front.
cartography's nausea
It is well known that the atlas made in Japan and the atlases made abroad, let’s say in London, have different compositions. That is, Japan…
In the future
In the future, when the remains of this age are sifted through by chatbot archaeologists, they will shake their little algorithmic heads and…
The Honeyed Siphon
For 14 years I have lived a hamfistedly biopolitical life, in which all food is quanta and my blood talks in numbers.
Uncertain augury
On exiting the subway today, climbing the stairs up into Union Square, a small feather fell onto our faces. Then more. We looked up. A…
We are forever staggered that we are not ceaselessly wrecked against the shoals of the world and ourselves
Fragment from a history of domestic architecture, 2548 AD
The house was dying. That much was sure.
To relax and create beautiful monstrosities
Michael Moorcock describes, in 1972, the origin of both Ello and Red Lobster's new Fresh Catch Lobster Tail-Stuffed Scampi Garlic Lobster Sliders.
The rich own watches
Terrified by time yet aware that it is money, the rich own watches.
JUDEX: There Has Been a Bird
A new video essay by Evan Calder Williams for Criterion Collection, Judex: There Has Been a Bird looks at George Franju's recently reissued Judex (1963) to…
The rich go to the zoo
Are hyenas Crossfit?
When the rich walk
For the rich, when they walk, there is no firmament
May they all be so
Stoppage Time
A network rubbernecks its own disaster in real time, but we feel it as always just after and already just elsewhere
but not when she was a child
(Jane Bowles, "Everything is Nice")
RIP Farocki (1944 - 2014)
In the cinema it is as if the world itself wanted to tell us something.