Mystical Idiots
...humans (difficult enough) but instead goes much further. Reality is infinitely more complex and multilayered than our frame of reference normally allows for and the forms of our entanglement in...
Dissatisfaction City
...it does not seem abnormal or problematic to sit for hours, bleeding money onto the felt and into the coffers of the casinos, even while other humans sit hungry and...
The History of Dialogue (5): Snobs on Snobbery
...a development of liberalism and capitalism, if not more so, than snobbery, which predates it and will survive as long as humans organize themselves hierarchically (i.e. probably forever). And I...
The New Inquiry Magazine Volume 37: Vibes
...as irrational as any community of humans, and just as susceptible to making institutional decisions based on vibes individuals give off. Something is fishy. An excerpt from Adam Kotsko’s forthcoming...
Il Salvataggio Selvaggio
...side or ruins their image, they will not pay the penalty of the universal. That will be paid by humans alone: Those who drown and those who are said to...
Not this. More that!
...sense of satisfaction,” “we can require no less of ourselves.” To return to Freud: pleasure is one of our first sensations as humans. The “erotic” is a way of naming...
Vibes
...humans, and just as susceptible to making institutional decisions based on vibes individuals give off. Something is fishy. An excerpt from Adam Kotsko’s forthcoming book, Creepiness, shows us the ways...
Klein vs. Klein
...life. “As a culture,” she claims, “we do a very poor job of protecting, valuing, or even noticing fertility—not just among humans but across life’s spectrum.” This conviction leads her...
The Life and Death of the Graveyard Shift
...this work we shun is more appropriate for tools than people. One wonders what that must suggest to the humans who still do it. We’re somewhat aware that a person...
Just the Facts
...hypothetical theory that a particular substance is poisonous to humans. Seeking to falsify this theory, a skeptic might ingest a bit of this substance and declare her survival to be...
Poor Sleeping Habits
...hand as servants but far away as humans.” —Arjun Appadurai, Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Often while shooting her film Salaam Bombay!, director Mira Nair would...
Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Hot Babe
...Hot Babe, under the emancipatory sign of the Hot Babe, all art will be obsolete or generalized into nonexistence: “That’s hot, that’s hot, that’s hot.” The humans of the future...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...Dear Marooned Alien Princess, I find it hard to not give some credence to evolutionary psychology’s assertion that patriarchy is hardwired in humans. While feminism has merits, patriarchy is...
Postcards From Si Kenya
...the Mkanda channel for three years while the harbor is dredged to make it deep enough for huge container ships. The channel will be completely closed as a transport route....
How to Destroy a Community
...your enemies, not all adversity is created equal, he says. Dramatic wins or losses, though exciting, do little to turn the tide of war. Humans are quite adept as rationalizing...