The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...After purchasing digital music, you can download it in whatever format you like, as many times as you want, as long as the site exists. You can listen to music...
Infinite Jestice
...by centralizing a 'single, continually evolving database' where the metrics of targets in multiple geographies are catalogued wholesale. Targeted killing operations that were once viewed as extraordinary or emergency measures...
Dynamite at the police parade and other comic situations
...salvage I have stressed elsewhere, the bound twin of sabotage. Comedy is the main site of the elaboration of this. In part because it involves objects that don’t function like...
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...and the other replicants were frontiersmen, cowboys who had come back to “civilization,” so-called, and found it had no place for them. Blade Runner, you see, is a western. If...
Avoid All Demonstrations as a Precaution
...Department. In some cases, entire travel assistance programs for special 'SOS' medical or evacuation services are based around such precautions. The University of California (full disclosure: I am an alum)...
Clear Satire
...one could come up with—I am told, again by my friend Jonathan Shelley—was far from universally understood as satire, at the time. You just can’t know for sure. What this...
The Sabotage of Time
...of subject and act that underpins any representational politics, be it voting or street protests. In place of that, sabotage suggests making use of the very paths and delays of...
Paths to Gory
...of you. It’s tempting to imagine a more empathetic version of the film, one that could rise to the challenge of addressing the abuses of California’s carceral society, but this...
Sunday Reading
...meetings. Standardized tests about standardized tests Common sense on the Chicago school closings No, the Baumol effect is not the cause of price increases MOOC professors claim no responsibility for...
The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale
...castle out there, inhabited, I hope, by a santasuit-wearing cop holding an assault rifle in one hand and a dental spatula in the other. Download the original data here....
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Violent Motion, 1
...Ducato being assembled at the SevelSud factory in Val Di Sangro At the broadest, we could say that every cut, in camera or in post-production, describes a version of this...
The Novelty of African Poetry
...on to explain, “I was speaking of the distinction between literate and preliterate societies. For I was once an anthropology student, you see." If you ask the bad version of...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...[This is a modified, expanded version of the text of a performance/treatise/non-film that a proxy version of myself gave at the Whitney a while back, from behind a black...
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...end of history. As for Francis Fukuyama, this end signals a consensus that is also a closure. In this version of the present, and future, there is no longer master,...
Reform School
...measure themselves through ever more standardized tests. Still, the same class interests that created American compulsory education and reinvented it once are not satisfied. Here’s how Goyal describes today’s corporate...