The Writing Cure
...in writing about it, be the fumbling earlier version of yourself who walked into whatever situation you are now sitting down to explain. You the protagonist—that is, the character inhabiting...
Biopolitical Exclusion Starts with a Hug
...it should be; see a recent aggregation here). More important is how this intervention operationalizes a particularly advanced version of paternalistic liberal biopolitics by making biological life itself the object...
Thanksgiving is Bullshit
...events which it sanctifies not only symbolically happened, but they kind of actually really happened. The darker and more grisly version of the story—as David Murray tells it in Indian...
The History of Dialogue (2): Joyce & Proust
...faithful, they discussed their maladies. * A version of the story as heard and retold by William Carlos Williams in 1924: ‘I’ve headaches everyday. My eyes are terrible.’ Proust replied,...
On Rage and Swagger
...often mistaken for the swagger of who carries, wears, drives, uses those objects. (The meaning of its crass, truncated version swag, or swag bag, i.e. shitty cheap objects given or...
What Happens in Girls Club
...two department stores can be a “domesticated version of Mean Girls” if Martha Stewart is at the center. Political disagreements, when negotiated by women, can usher an entire county in...
Obscenity: I Know It When I See It
...Maria Gunnoe is a West Virginia coalfield activist, and this video is one version of her story. It always makes me tear up; I've seen it a half dozen...
Not the One
...his own bourgeois prejudices, of spreading a rancid version of ‘68 politics, condescending to tell Mehdi not to bother with the "left anarcho-situationists" MBK was affiliated with the, sure, left...
The master-smartphone dialectic
...breakfast, then what can the bosses do about it? Smartphone lockout? Once employers successfully blame workers for overworking (or for being "workaholics," an earlier version of this blame-shifting tactic), they...
Sunday Reading
...An Arabic version of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on Hindu ideas about creation The competing worlds of written Turkish On Japanese school culture...
Beautiful Music
...variations. Like this amazing punk version.) Two notes: 1) I do not necessarily endorse the messages in any of these songs—surprisingly, there were no songs titled "Hey Women's Relationship to...
Society of The Spectacle @ Light Industry 9/24
...completely unofficial) English-language version of Debord’s film Society of the Spectacle (1973), with a voiceover by Paul Chan. 87 mins, followed by a discussion with Alexander R. Galloway, Jason E....
Understanding abolition through bell hooks
...can all enact domination in some form or another. Some might consider this a flaw in her analysis, a version of “all sides-ism.” Yet it is an important point to...
Why Couldn’t Richard Aoki Have Been an Informant?
...considered a threat to national security and exploitable by axis powers, in particular Japan, who was promoting its own version of Black-Asian solidarity. As a Cold War strategy the White...
Sunday Reading
..."the Great Man version of Twitter's history" "women who post on “Am I Ugly?” receive an average of 54 replies, while men receive an average of 14" "There was a...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.28.12
...of dressing invisibly—"a sort of deliberate version of the Emperor’s new clothes, minus the humiliating nudity"—and what it has to do with the female ass. (Thanks to Emily for the...