The Diasporist of Drohobycz
A new translation of Bruno Schulz’s stories reveals the local in vitalist understandings of diaspora that do not need to claim a Jewish state to flourish
Cruise Control
...no “offensive or pornographic” materials be included in a profile; violation leads to profiles being disabled. But Grindr’s media celibacy, however, doesn’t stop the app from publicly identifying as a...
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)
...good way to deal with the different materials here the film does not want to treat any of them as more important than the others & some are more exciting...
Some covert wonder
...meaning a time period, just a quality that you know when you see, perhaps in the way that it attends to materials, really attends to them. There is heat here,...
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago
...ropes, dentist utensils, broken bones and wax materials inside the freezers, a machine with an X-ray emblem on it, classified documents stored in conditions conductive to propagation, and high dose...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...as American as apple pie or Walt Whitman. With different materials and a completely different intellectual and verbal style from Lawrence, he made a subtly parallel argument about the forgotten...
"it's blessed queer!" "It is blessed queer!" he agreed. "It's damned queer!"
...that queerly happen on it in totally queer ways. Also, accompanying materials for a longer work on the limits of horror's language and horror as the ornamental flourishing - and...
Economy of Dissonance
...Together they used ordinary, found materials and single sewing machine to design unique copies of branded bags. They then attempted to sell them on the streets of Naples. The production...
Folk Etymologies
If language is the problem, it isn't always the solution.
How Many Licks
...complex picture. Patriarchy is in the mix. So are incredible histories of gender variance and dildo artisans working in a variety of creative materials for millennia. National monuments. The New...
SEO & The Disappearing Self
...see a list of all our friends’ updates in reverse chronological order. The platform filters out materials it has determined will be less compelling to us (or someone in our...
The Missing Medium
...moment yet, there is reason to put off this domestication a while longer. When we agree to define materials by the transitory spirit that we sometimes glance in them we...
Timothy Mitchell and Alberto Toscano @ e-flux 10/31
..."LtG", graphic materials for exhibition events, Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva, 2013. In his book Carbon Democracy (Verso, 2011), Timothy Mitchell traces the history of oil from...
Counterfeit
...Gogh.” In a photo essay by the artist Alex Auriema, members of the Senegalese community in Naples produce “fake fakes,” unique copies of branded luxury bags made from found materials...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 3)
...materials here the film does not want to treat any of them as more important than the others & some are more exciting than others but this is not allowed...