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...
Dicks
...foreskin simply a less hot version of the labia? Not to the Catholic Church and not to its nuns, whose ecstatic habit of dropping Jesus’s prepuce like it’s acid is...
Quentin Meillassoux and the Crackpot Sublime
...embodiment. In short, insofar as Meillassoux is “embracing Christianity,” it’s an extremely weird version of Christianity that almost anyone who currently calls themself a Christian would surely reject. More than...
more tired, more frustrated, more rotten
...and shape and edit an elegant argument saying some good clear thing about some version of all of that disgusting bullshit. I don’t think there is any clarity to be...
Reading Sofia Samatar: Vallon
...I’m arrested. Here’s one version of an argument: too often, the formally lettered try to “capture” the stories of “the unlettered.” We—we must be used here—want to “write down,” “arrange,”...
Storefront Supernatural
...away. The powder version comes in one-ounce, half-pound and one-pound packages. A portion of the store is dedicated to Santería, an oft-misunderstood religion that dates back centuries and has its...
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
...Elizabeth Peyton, Craig (1997). A version of this post originally appeared on Generation Bubble The Birth of Cool The rise of consumerism coincided with a promise about liberation....
terrain & terroir
...second version, and in an era of rising fundamentalisms of all types, law and religion collapse into each other. * What do you have to know about Uganda to write...
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...
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...
Day Residue
...is a version of herself—and, in the 1990s, when she wrote about her life and times she adopted a light, comic tone; in an essay written on the eve of...
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...
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...