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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The restless land meets...
Weight Gains
...by these industries in turn benefit off of the dysphoria produced by a cultural aversion to fatness, an aversion that the U.S. also exports. One 2012 study found that, controlling...
The Flies That Bind
...the house where the sweats of your fever dried into a salt version of you, a leaked ghost to be inherited by those who bought the mattress from us for...