Alphabet of an Unknown City (N-Z)
...or contagious disease are placed: many animals die in quarantine³” The vulnerability of the city that makes it tighten and constrict when there’s fear of exposure; but always a city...
Alphabet of an Unknown City (A-M)
...and the knowledge that I will immediately and certainly die in the impact. Or I for Iberia. Or I for a graphic line dividing the center of a page. Somewhere...
How to Win Tinder
...group game. If I am to play, I need to play in the company of friends, both virtual and IRL. Together we level up. Alone we die. ...
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...they fall in love with are destined to die. Witchcraft, as the title suggests, is used rationally and rarely to subvert. Whereas the women in Bewitched are meant to appear...
Daddy O
...Men.com and the newer Icon Male are both flooded with variations on the same theme. The two most popular scenes at Men.com (according to their home page) are My New...
No Kony Is an Island: Death and Profit in Central Africa
...balance of payments improvement. Photos taken from album "Gold mining in the Congo," at Funzu.com, with auto-generated ads. Photographer unknown. The state had to somehow both use this machine of...
Yes We Keynes!
...that whatever the government does, private firms could do better; and, of course, the Efficient-Markets Hypothesis, which assumes that when investors floated pets.com $82.5 million in its initial public offering,...
Heroines
...afflicted with Eliot’s aboulie. I know I want to leave this stale town as soon as possible. I am sure if I do not I will die. I think of...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...xoJane.com (after failed attempts to resolve her drug addiction) and subsequently joined Vice as their “pills and narcissism” correspondent with a column titled “Amphetamine Logic.” As writers buzzed about Marnell’s...
Buffalo Skulls
...university public relations is where thought goes to die, white nationalists like Richard Spencer see it as a major victory. Words are powerful. Lemkin’s word, genocide, made it possible to...
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Excerpts from a Conversation with David Foster Wallace
...gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die. But you developed some defenses? No. This is the great thing about it, is that probably each generation has different...
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
...the theme of death seems a little unseasonal. If there is “a time to die,” it should be, say, December, when the cold does its deathly work on nature. But...
Hot Allostatic Load
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Build in the gaps between storms of chronic pain. Build inside the storms.
A Sensor, Darkly
Bryant, who was named the 2015 Whistleblower of the Year by the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, is an air force veteran. His memoir originally appeared in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare, which will be published next month by Duke University Press. The essay collection was edited by Lisa Parks and
World Wide Waves: an interview with Laleh Khalili
A new book on the political economy of shipping covers how the labor behind global supply chains has both transformed since post 9/11 securitization and remained brutally the same since shipping's earliest days.