Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...taken as a sort of literary explanation of his decision to die. — Jan Steyn, “Afterward” to Suicide by Edouard Levé An act, followed by a text, followed by an...
Sir Warsalot and the Daily Show
...Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died and die because the United States decided to play empire, because it believed that a precise and overpowering use of force could shock and...
The Sororal Death
...Susan Sontag made notes in her journal for a work to be called “On Woman Dying” or “Deaths of Women” or “How Women Die.” Under the word “material” she listed...
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
...everything. Loves die from disgust, and forgetfulness buries them. Les amours meurent par le dégoût, et l'oubli les enterre. Jean de La Bruyère Du Coeur, 32, Les Caractères 1688-1696 tuesday...
Full-Time Daughter
...the spoils of white patriarchy, but instead she wants to lie down and die. In this alone, perhaps, she is very sympathetic. She wants to die, but until then, she...
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Little Girl?
...to a series of struggles to the death. And as the novelist/art-critic John Berger writes, “once death is invoked, the choice of who must die may seem oddly arbitrary.” The...
Epic Fail
...a total annihilation—the desire to dismantle the prison and the terms of imprisonment without dismantling the self. Choosing to “live to fight” rather than die to prove a point, the...
Make Kin, Not Borders
Who lives and dies under the shadow of population control?
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...and death camp once did, and more. Today, hundreds of people who die crossing the US/Mexico border each year, just as thousands die trying to get from Africa to Europe...
Dinner with Caligula
...contempt, and the laborer was a thing to be spurned -- for the free citizen to labor with his hands was more disgraceful than to die of starvation. Hence there...
Looking at The Flick
...would have dreamed film would die so quickly?” I imagine Annie Baker was writing The Flick and trying to cope. Four years later, Ebert is dead, Baker’s play has won...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...a sort of literary explanation of his decision to die. — Jan Steyn, “Afterward” to Suicide by Edouard Levé An act, followed by a text, followed by an interpretation of...
Lessons From a New History of ACT UP: An Interview with Sarah Schulman
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power began as a revolutionary liberation movement––so what happened?
The End of the World as We Know It
...bomb, will never provide heaven on earth. Those who eagerly prepare for the apocalypse in order to survive it will manage only to die of survival. If we are to...
Everything resembles the truth
...for the July 2010 issue of the Stereohell periodical Der Stereohell (reproduced separately in Die Progressive Paralyse (Disorders of Simulation Augmented, Vol. II), Coxsackie, NY (2010), and in a 2013...
Migrants Welcome
...only for a minor difference) allows to die of hunger and disease tens of millions of children…without any moral or legal tribunal ever being considered competent to judge such a...