from Frnkln Ridgway's Facebook Aaron Bady (is back at his Twitter handle): Spin The White House's initial statements about what happened, false though they turned out…
"...for in the enjoyment of those fruits, which our industry and labours have made our own upon our own, what Privilege is that, above what the Turks, Jews, and Moors enjoy under the Turkish Monarchy?"
Illustration from William Hamilton Gibson's Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them (1895) I have an essay on The New Inquiry's main…
The career of 19th-century writer, illustrator and naturalist William Hamilton Gibson reminds modern urbanites that all conservation, like politics, is local
India is a bazaar of thingness where stuff proliferates in excess of any attempts at categorization. The stacks, bundles, and piles yield another mode of looking, unknown at the factory or supermarket.
There was a sentiment, a mood, that a good simulation was a reiterated simulation. But when S-22 had the occasion to prove the people at S-75 they were wrong about this sentiment, it just didn’t work.
The mediocrity-machine: what’s “stealing” from another when the game is to produce tripe, churn it out, and witness it flowing out of one mouth or another?
"When we look at ourselves in the mirror we’re kind of seeing this two-dimensional image of our bodies; we’ve never getting the full feel. So I can see my twin sister's body from every angle and it’s normal. She’s right there in front of me, in every dimension, and I can’t get that perspective any
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.