Banal Brutalities
With no time for tenderness, I see my body as a sack of flesh and little more
After Infinitude
...ROSALIND : “Die, died, will die.” ROBERT : “If we could perceive time as it really was…” ROSALIND : “…what reason would grammar professors have to get out of bed?”...
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
How to Destroy a Community
...half-million subscribers is that it is a game of lasting consequences. In MMOs like World of Warcraft, death is a brief inconvenience. You die, you respawn, you get on with...
Hopper on Art, Commerce, Death & Legacy
...will not find death.’” […] “I’m a compulsive creator,” [Hopper] said. “Rilke asks, ‘If it were denied you to create, would you die?’ If not, then don’t create. Do something...
Postcards From Si Kenya
...in Lamu. At Mpeketoni, they are often told to go to Malindi. They often die in transit. The Saudis built a state-of-the art hospital, the King Fahd hospital, on the...
Under the Rainbow
...LGBT community, writer and activist Darnell L. Moore started the Twitter hashtag #NotTooProudToFight to voice his frustrations with the insistence on pride and celebration without accountability for the Black lives...
Dead Can Dance
...monuments and public presentations of the dead are about men because men die in war, and many of the great monuments to the dead are created in war. And “great...
Migratory Words
...it? I don’t know. It’s sad that this boy had to die for people to pay attention. Afterwards Merkel announced that Germany is welcoming Syrian refugees, but like you said,...
Dinner with Lydia Maria Child
...may have lost their fortunes or the ability to make those fortunes anew. Sustain such a loss and you might as well die. (And, indeed, from disease, alcoholism, neglect or...
The Development Imaginary: Tracks*
...development imaginary such fast-spreading poison I need to read more Stuart Hall 13 January 2014: development imaginary strikes again and again it really is the mosquito that won’t die 22...
Sunday Reading
...did not come here to die' On A Fine Dessert, A Birthday Cake for George Washington, Children's Literature About Slavery Vultures Are Revolting. (Here's why we need to save them)...
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...there to burn. While Facebook and Twitter are excellent vectors for this kind of misinformation, Chinua Achebe is the sort of writer who would die twice. For one thing, he's...
Droning On
...that the dialectic between citizen-soldiers and the warring state has been severed: when those who before could die by killing for the state are now no longer at mortal risk,...
Sunday Reading
...market accumulation + drone militarism = grow or die. One company holds 700 billion data points on 1.3 billion people. Privatization of profit, socialization of risk. The Matrix of Electricity...
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...It summoned Svend to die. / Beneath its influence malign / The pole star sickly grew; / Too well the meaning of the sign / The aged viking knew." --Hugh...