Twilight of the Cruise
...is the New Yorker’s dérive. “The cruise about searching for everything worthwhile about existence. It is about walking into the bar and lusting after all the worthwhile possibilities. It is...
Teenage Paparazzo @ Spectacle Theater 11/7
...follow him while searching for celebrities. Grenier had set himself a mission in getting to understand the world of the paparazzi. Austin has to be tutored and stays up late...
Five Questions with Jerome Rothenberg
...records was suspicious at first—wary I think of people searching there for reparations or lost possessions—but as we talked with her that seemed to fade away. The very large ledgers...
Dark Pools
...over bank surfaces searching for dirt; in another, people moved as one body while carrying out ATM transactions; in others, people pet a dog named Truman and then the walls,...
Melancholy and The Infinite Sadness
...comes to us in blocks on the page that parallel the photo-illustrations taken from television. The language: simple, felt, searching. In Barbara Browning’s I’m Trying to Reach You, the Internet...
Trouble at the Language Lab
...deflect attention” to “sentences filled with errors, sentences afflicted with inconsistencies of tense and tone.” But he is essentially a prisoner, searching fruitlessly in a mad scientist’s lab for a...
C-SPAN 5
Purest Washington inanity, straight from the source.
Feinting Spells
...The protagonist is a young boy — with an alienation from reality that is perhaps peculiar to the very young — but he’s also a kind of detective, searching out...
Finer Things
...on the differences between mineral, spring, distilled, and purified waters and brands). But Bateman finds a way in by resolutely remaining on the surface, generating an implicit, searching critique through...
Precarity and "affective resistance"
...ideological energy that hinges on our preoccupation with our individuality, our unique destiny, our special distinctive abilities. Social media provide the institutional infrastructure for that ideological energy, foreclosing on the...
"Want some food?"
...I find myself thinking much more about what isn't there anymore, the social infrastructure that these people treated as a violent threat to, something. We shouldn't romanticize what was happening...
The Will to Wall
...this regard, there are walls built for him, and walls that he unwittingly legitimates and reproduces. Tax-paying Canadian citizens like Di Cintio contribute to the policing infrastructure in the Canada-U.S....
The Oceanic Feeling
...a path through the crumbling infrastructure of the American dream. It has been said that while liberals won the culture wars of recent decades, the right won the political and...
Sunday Reading
...know: the sense of possibility was real.” Infrastructure Shouldn’t Be An Anatomy Sky Burial: Excarnation in Texas “What does it mean to situate Citizen as the aesthetic object that documents...
Selfies without the self
...in a captured, preformatted space. Selfies, then, primarily signal the availability of the self to the network. The practice of selfie-making doesn't eradicate the infrastructure of commercially exploitable identity that...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...of policing and control. Supplementing this, contra-Internet is also the search for and constitution of Internet alternatives. I consider the examples of alternative infrastructure outlined above as crucial to the...