Sunday Reading
...on the manuscript as a medium worthy of study and respect.” 'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German How Black Girls Die in America “Hart Island, the United...
Sunday Reading
...more interesting when people insert themselves into it” “Week 5: Feedback: Bruno Latour comments on your blogs” “The problem with the relentless “search for meaning” is that it extinguishes all...
Quentin Meillassoux and the Crackpot Sublime
...to look at the other major slice of Meillassoux’s writings to which we have access: the selections from his unpublished dissertation, "The Divine Inexistence," published in Graham Harman’s study of...
Pont Blank
...The Imaginary, 1940 This is the story of how I came to be profoundly disillusioned with the modernist photographic tradition. Through careful study of their work, it came to my...
On Heteropessimism
Heterosexuality is nobody’s personal problem.
The Myth of Liberal Policing
For liberals, police reform is always a question of helping police sustain their legitimacy, despite their illegitimate roots
Outgrowing oneself
...are just residual, a revealed preference for x over y, and the difference between x and y is immaterial, a local phenomenon beneath study. It has the illusion of significance...
Reality Fiction
...and the medium of slick commercial television belies the tedium of production, of their lives. You could feel the hands of the producers reaching in, reshaping the world they lived...
Miéville's Anticlimaxes
...the text into the feedback loop of genre is acknowledged simultaneously with the way this same mystification is revealed as bad faith. Perhaps the strongest example in Miéville comes from...
The Conservatism of Emoji
...study, it’s increasingly clear that quantifying, tracking and manipulating emotion is an important part of the company’s business model. “By selecting your current activity instead of merely writing it out,...
Lunch on the Grass
...Image from The Children's Picnic and Other Tales in Verse (1883) Much of what made life pleasurable is now gone. We must seek out what remains. The study of...
Private Life Drama
...small suburban factory. Is this oblivion communism? It’s hard to say. Historian Jochen Hellbeck, in a study of diaries written under Stalin, finds people working to make new selves. They...
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Vol. 16: New World Order
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Vol. 17: Games
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