Appetite for Destruction
Why the NFL is a special kind of car crash
Nothing Short of a Revolution
For all the talk of community and locality central to social justice rhetoric, people have been willing to believe that any sort of radicalism is alien.
How Ought We Die?
Secular medicine’s original exclusions prevent us from understanding the process of death
Cleaning Up
As a cleaner, I was prolonging the illusion that writing is and should be a living
Death and the Maiden
Freud’s theory of the death drive also gives us a way to think about gender
Made for China
With the dramatic expansion of the Chinese film market, big budget action movies are increasingly designed with Chinese audiences in mind.
Poems From Guantanamo
A new book of poems about Guantanamo Bay detainees raises the prison's specter of placelessness
In Defense of Looting
For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
The Conservatism of Emoji
Emoji offer you new possibilities for digital expression, but only if you’re speaking their language
Incalculable Loss
The algorithms that make up Big Data distribute complicity for death across the populations they surveil
You'll Never Walk Alone
A review of Frederic Gros's A Philosophy of Walking
Stoppage Time
A network rubbernecks its own disaster in real time, but we feel it as always just after and already just elsewhere
Wound Down Inside
Ultraviolence’s suffocated soars frustrate critics’ attempts to feel good about Lana feeling bad
Lessons of Engagement
Cosmology and ethics in Etel Adnan’s poetry
A Reformist in Hell
Law professor Robert A. Ferguson’s critique of the U.S. prison system misses the point that its purpose is not rehabilitation but civic death
Further Reading
Gary Simmons “Black Chalkboard (Triple Eye Maestro” (1993) via Hirshhorn Museum When TNI asked me if I’d be interested in adding a syllabus to the review…