All Out to Block the Alt-Right
Print out these posters and organize a "Stop the Hate" event in your city
There Are No Accidents
...elastic and must continue to absorb new materials, no matter how outlandish or unlikely, to survive. They are exponentially generative, because anything can be connected. Conspiracy theories are endless scrolls,...
Airplane Reading, Rarified
...Rhapsody, all issues available for download in tidy thumbnail form, no first class itinerary required. That was anticlimactic. I downloaded the most recent issue, January 2016, Samuel L. Jackson chilling...
Who's That Girl?
...show still holds the attention of the 18-to-40 crowd. Admittedly, I’ll continue to pay $2.99 to download more episodes on iTunes. I’m not, however, watching for Zooey. I’m hoping for...
Percival Everett by Percival Everett
...latest novel. PERCIVAL EVERETT BY VIRGIL RUSSELL If there was no god and the argument for his existence was sound, then language was a great failure or deceiver or bad...
Sunday Reading
...intellectual dishonesty. Relatively mundane extreme weather--more, hotter days, extremes of either too little precipitation or bigger rain storms--is becoming increasingly common. How do those things become disasters? When our infrastructure...
Sunday Reading
...Prophecies of the Great Flood Occupy the Rockaways! Not a Grid, But a Fleet (on ships in cities, and cities of ships) The Anthropology of Infrastructure (a roundtable discussion) The...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...to compete and train in the first place. In the Dominican Republic you can only train for professional gymnastics if you live in the capital near the few places that...
Kill the Philosopher in Your Head
...While the promotional materials for the book promise “a key theoretical text for activists,” what On The Reproduction of Capitalism provides is no instruction for revolution, but a messy, contradictory...
they built for eternity
...or other high-skilled positions; in the foreground, American urban planners and engineers who are not only named and profiled by professional or personality but endowed with voice-of-God pull-quotes ("It's there,"...
A World More Beautiful and Alive: A Review of The Extractive Zone
From Ecuador, Perú, Chile, Colombia, and Bolivia, Macarena Gómez-Barris describes “submerged perspectives,” the decolonial ways of knowing that unsettle colonial relationships to land and the forms of violence they reproduce.
New lows
...intense activity devoted to the study of this "situation," there still remained a paucity of literature addressing the specific understanding of knowledge S-77 considered valid—and the semantic implications of using...
Come Down With Fire
...that “I’ve been searching for the daughter of the devil himself / I’ve been searching for an angel in white / I’ve been waiting for a woman who’s a little...
Junk Drawer
...the messages we leave behind for ourselves. Rebecca Bates: What led you to Google Earth-inspired art? Did you begin searching for something in particular, or was this born of an...
The Paranoid-Critical Method
...ideological interpretations of reality that pass as "real facts," the ones convenient to power and the reproduction of existing distributions of privilege and so on. In fact, they fit that...
Deregulated Votes
...that were won by Democrats in the 2016 Presidential Election: California New York Source: eac.gov [State Requirements and the Federal Voting System Testing and Certification Program, PDF] justice.gov/crt/jurisdictions-previously-covered-section-5 cnn.com/election/results...