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...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...American Artist, A Refusal (2015), Online performance, Ongoing In art that defines itself by what it withholds from public view lies the challenge for us to do the...
Death Stares
...replete with snazzy filters. As more people go online, impromptu and unintentional memorials arise and dead people’s accounts become virtual shrines and spaces for collective grief. By Facebook’s 10th anniversary...
Social Media, Social Factory
...to produce cool. The online self thereby seems an opening rather than a precluding of possibilities. Having our communicative “virtuosity” exploited seems like authentication of the self’s social value. Commercial...
Reason Displaces All Love
...was, of course, associated with women and the drudgery of housework. Here too it was thought that energy ordinarily expended by humans might be taken over by machines. The novel...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 66: Bad Faith
...those who practice bad faiths of a different kind: social, political, or religious beliefs counter to the dominant Christian nationalism of the United States. The cultural celebration of non-Christian witchiness...
Bad Faith
...those who practice bad faiths of a different kind: social, political, or religious beliefs counter to the dominant Christian nationalism of the United States. The cultural celebration of non-Christian witchiness...
Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian
For María Lugones
Reign in Drool
...games require audiovisual hyperbole to respond to each gesture the player sends them, something easiest to see in explosions and blood spurts, either the literal gore of other humans falling...
Glass Barricades, 1
...that belief in progressive capitalist order can only comprehend as belonging to another time altogether – also lies at the quite literal center of the Kiev scenes and why received...
Let Loose the Dogs of Love
...readers like me who follow online first, is its proximity and, as you write early on, its polyphony. For example, I've connected to scenes in Robert Bresson movies I'm actually...
Whose Streets?
An interview with Malick Gueye on anti-racist organizing with undocumented street vendors in pandemic-lockdown Spain
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...and relinquish the compensatory desires and intoxications we have developed in order to make the present livable.'” For the many being forced into more precarious and untenable situations, there are...
Leak, Memory
...part of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, for example, gathers testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, and makes them widely available online. There is...
Super Position
...is completely illegal to rise up in arms, overthrow a government, and create a new political order. Cromwell, Jefferson, and Danton were surely guilty of treason according to the laws...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...the PM. 'Whose order?' An on-the-ground video from 20 June. [Youtube, with English subtitles] Participatory democracy, until the end. [Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Michael D. Kennedy, Huffington Post] Many of those...