The Science of Making CS Gas “Safe”
The idea that tear gas is "safe" was produced through violent experimentation on working-class colonial subjects
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
The Hollywood witch’s real oath isn’t to the goddess or Satan—it’s to have and to hold
Suspiria @ Anthology Film Archives 10/8
On the occasion of the first-ever NYC concerts (Oct 6 & 7) by Goblin – Dario Argento’s favored composers – Anthology and Malastrana Film Series…
Vol. 21 Editors’ Note: Witches
“Witch” stands for all those unnamable shadow acts of disappearance and withdrawal, self-cultivation and self-medication that elude the social and sexual order...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 79
New study finds that superstitions actually do "reverse" perceived bad fortune
Sunday Reading
As the old Aztec proverb has it, "When the going gets weird, the weird get Sunday Reading."
the weapon of the disinherited
grazie, Alberto
Page Turner: The AAWW Food and Books Festival @ Roulette/The YWCA 10/5
[rlinstallation by Nicola Lopez[/rl] Half block party, half book bash, PAGE TURNER: The AAWW Food and Books Festival is an unforgettable all-day free public fair…
TNI Vol. 21: Witches
The New Inquiry dives head-first into the feminine occult with our October theme: witches. Here's a preview of what's in store.
Prends garde: à jouer au fantôme, on le devient
This assimilation to space is necessarily accompanied by a decline in the feeling of personality and life. It should be noted in any case that…
This is How the World Ends @ MAD 10/4
Director Gregg Araki describes this pilot episode of a never-realized television show, This is How the Worlds Ends(2000), as Twin Peaks for MTV. Dancing-midget rock fans…
Cat Power
The first book in the subfield of Hello Kitty studies, Pink Globalization explores Kitty's kawaiipolitik
Essentially Vicious
Let us cut the fat from the bones.
Open City @ Montclair State U 10/4-5
Featuring Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jonathan Finlayson, Adam O’Farrill, Graham Haynes, Steve Coleman, Hafez Modirzadeh, Mark Shim, Elena Pinderhughes, Josh Roseman, Tyshawn Sorey, Mat Maneri,…
Uwe Boll’s Weaponized Cinema
Only director Uwe Boll's incompetence permits his films to make a radical critique of contemporary violence
Hollow Inside
Social media negate the idea of interiority, the sanctity of opaque motives