Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
The Acquisitive Gaze
...for the construction and circulation of a bland sanitized identity. “Its express purpose,” she wrote, “is to free us from the awkwardness of self-expression and keep us safely in the...
Anti-Fascisting
“None of us, under capitalism, can claim to be wholly free of fascism.” An interview with Natasha Lennard.
Too Foreign
...A comparative reading reveals a few noteworthy examples: Sousa: “Up to now, finding myself was having a readymade person-idea and mounting myself inside it: I incarnated myself inside that set-up...
The Privileged White Men of Treme, and Their Hard Working Others
...flawed at best (Davis) and almost completely without redemptive qualities at worst (Creighton and Sonny). Which is simply to say: the most conspicuously flawed and conspicuously privileged characters in the...
Santorum's Gifts
...free, it enslaves us). In Michigan, the problem Santorum is complaining about is precisely this, that we are being un-indoctrinated, taught or permitted to do as we please. The secular...
The Gloom of the System
...writ large. The expansion of the students’ agenda was fueled by October's passage of a long-delayed US-Colombia free trade agreement in the American congress. The FTA was the coup de...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...of service. As online selfhood comes to dominate, we sell out simply by having an identity. Selling out becomes not the repudiation but the source of authenticity: We prove who...
The Havoc of Less
Huey Newton’s theory of intercommunalism reminds us not to lose sight of the everyday over the spectacular in contemporary discourses of crisis
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...law called the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. RICO allows conspiracy charges: the prosecution doesn’t have to prove that the defendant has committed a crime, only that they...
The Job of Consent
The Joy of Consent: a Philosophy of Good Sex (October 2023) tests the limits of consent as a heuristic for "good sex," exposing the wide berth between pleasure and what is legible to the law.
Upping the Antihero
...(and professional conflicts) have been outsourced to plucky mercenaries wielding supernatural powers – how is he supposed to compete with that? And what use is a loose-cannon cop when there’s...
Sunday Reading
...info about "Teacher Watch" project (modeled on Copwatch) Radio Autonomia's latest show has interviews with 50/50 Crew, Critical Resistance, and Bread & Roses collective "Last week’s proletariat is yesterday’s “ownership...
Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
...books, glossed as they are with my precious marginalia, but objects can be swiftly desacralized. Changes are sure to come to how we buy and keep books, and because of...
Nuclear Renewal
Viewers can now browse footage of Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests on Youtube. What is the value of that access?
Host in the Shell
...can be. “Part of the study,” one of the overseeing doctors has explained, “is that we’re trying to measure these side effects and find out what they are, so the...