They Were Like Us & We Were Like Them
...the world, unless it is that humans are capable of extreme and meaningless violence, whether in desperate Kotelnich or in bourgeois Paris, where Carrère commits a subtle kind of psychological...
Who Can You Trust?
...world, the Named garment achieves something our social networks cannot. We may never meet the three-dimensional version of our complete online cohort. But Minnie has a name. Order her. She’ll...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...Both endanger the vital activity of humans and physically disrupt their social reproduction. Their impacts spread across the planet, but their spreading patterns are invisible and hard to detect, only...
American Sajaegi
...phenomenon require an additional edge in order to be competitive. Rooting out and identifying sajaegi is a matter of looking at the numbers. It’s about identifying huge spikes in sales...
Super Position
...Order of some kind or another. Surely, if Red Skull, Kang the Conqueror, or Doctor Doom ever did succeed in taking over the planet, there would be lots of new...
"the good order of a school" and other poetries of privatization
...those words handed to you, that you've just been served with a legal stay-away order commanding you to stay away, for thirty days, from the place you're not allowed to...
Reading the ICC Witness Project: Witness #69
...ICC Witness Recalls Order to Evict Kikuyus: "When a convoy passed by, I heard Sammy Ruto saying that the results had been announced and ODM has been declared...
Why We Love Sociopaths
...the powerful and prestigious job, with more sexual opportunities than I know what to do with. In short order, it even comes to seem that only such people can get...
The Labor of Performance (Part Two)
...typically hidden from view through atomization, cheapened human life, and the technical flawlessness of spectacle. Thanks to Aaron Pellerin, whose talk "Zidane's Face: The Physiognomics of Sensation and Affect" (Society...
And it is once again the cinema that is most capable of wreaking this metaphysical, seditious havoc
...cinema could do no better. In temporary lieu of that, below are a couple of the films he dragged into the light and insisted be seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af-pHcC_M3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-WQZx2oJo http://www.veoh.com/watch/v14074458aY356Cd4 Lastly,...
Amniotechnics
...that fetuses (themselves full of parasites and symbionts) distinguish themselves. They do so brutally. Whereas in most species the mother’s safety comes first by default, in humans it is very...
Testing Beyond Control
...“I’m Feelin’ Like a Criminal: Why the Law Won’t Stop the Spread of HIV.” Positive Women’s Network - USA, pwnusa.wordpress.com. March 8, 2015. Jones is not alone in her distrust....
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...film about me, I decided to make this one: it’s titled Doctor Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots. Or The Ekphrasis of Doctor Mabuse. Or just...
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...what's wrong with modernity. In her essay "Twelve Words, Nine Days", a few years earlier, she'd written: “A political scientist for Ottawa, Canada writes about globalization in terms of extreme...
No, You're Already Pretty
...using the identical new whatever. • You should always think about how your new purchase fits into your existing wardrobe—a cheap blouse isn't cheap anymore if you have to buy...
A Cute Idea
...(or paranoid) moments, the characters chatter about the digital protocols to which they are submitted as fluently as today’s humans might complain of a life-sucking job. Through aphorisms poised between...