Design Is a Bureaucrat
...point of entry through which the many marginalized other significations can be accessed in order to be brought dialectically to bear on what's on the page, producing what Macherey's teacher...
New World Order
...time to believe in the current order of things, least of all because it’s barely managing to stay put. We’ll only see its true shape as it comes apart....
Queer, Interrupted
...simply wait out the violence of the queer-hostile social order that the cop upholds is a negating obscenity. It does violence to the traditions of the queer struggle for life...
Bad Faith
...shown, this contractual order already operates in bad faith, as it allows for patriarchal control of the social order to persist. The law, as everybody knows, only codifies what power...
Two Tears for Suboxone
...prescription for Suboxone pills and tells you to take them as directed. Which method would you choose? I should say, in case it isn’t obvious, that method two is much...
Over Easy
...donor,” an agency called “Elite Egg Donors” assures its clients, “and will do anything we can to make things go according to plan.” When a doctor decides that the timing...
En passant
...giving it a collaborative, scientistic veneer, as if the quest for machine intelligence while resolve all the conflicts over intelligence among humans. The competing programmers are represented as "nerds" —...
Taking Shit From Others
...Friendly Giant, the title character and his giant colleagues move through the world collecting dreams from sleeping humans and storing them in great warehouses. They then redistribute those dreams to...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...know what I see, when I see this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWKoS2B-u0M I see a law professor shoving a student—shouting “Get away from my space, you prick”—making more threatening movements, attempting to...
The Daddest Place on Earth
...features pavilions representing nine countries—Mexico, France, Japan, Germany, Norway, China, Morocco, the UK, Canada, Italy, and “The American Adventure”—filled with shopping centers and restaurants themed around the nation, along with...
Assemblage Required
...identifies numerous other ways to hold things together, and Inferno represents her attempt at sketching alternative sorts of existence in common. She does so not through simple prescription, but rather...
Sunday Reading: June 4, 2023
...souls came from.” CANSEC, North America's largest military weapon's convention, concluded in Ottawa this weekend. Over a hundred peaceful protestors delayed the keynote speech by Canada's defense minister. The Canadian...
The Anger of the Sick
The dismissals and disparities of the US healthcare system become grounds for a militant call to transform care in a new memoir, Blackfishing the IUD.
You'll Never See The Northern Lights
...the prospect of dying is not even a deterrent, because the only thing humans even do, anymore, is die. So what else is left? Nothing, apparently, is the answer....
The Enemy of All Mankind
...as driftnets and dynamite that destroy reefs and turn tuna and dolphins into bycatch; they confound fishery managers’ prescription of quotas, which protect small-scale fishers whose livelihoods depend on the...
Red Planet
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance