Final Fantasy
Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts in the time of social distancing
Digressions of an Opium-Eater
...is a book about the poorest of the poor prostituting themselves to feed an addiction that is slowly destroying them, and yet it is suffused with joy and vitality. Here,...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
Athletic Aesthetics
...and allow information to passively wash over you through your feed, you ultimately arrive at the same place: recognizing patterns amid flow rather than shutting the floodgates. As Marshall McLuhan...
Pryor Restraint
...rust-belt crime drama Blue Collar, Pryor plays an auto-worker caught in capitalism’s ugly grasp. He’s a good-humored man with mouths to feed, bills to pay, and friendships to maintain who...
Arcades, Mall Rats, and Tumblr Thugs
...viral data with which to feed its own sickness, it chews on itself for days before regurgitating its own guts in a feedback loop of 24-bit RGB rainbows. Nowadays, it’s...
Sunday Reading: May 13, 2023
...audience knows when each joke ends.” The effect is a synthetic montage, with jumps between emotions and characters whose emotional whiplash resembles a social media feed (lesser comics just read...
Vol. 74 Editors’ Note: Frenemies
Ambivalence reigns
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
None of This Is Written By Me
...to feed the survivors? Which will be more numerous as a result? The reason why not, of course, is that we don’t eat human beings. We just don’t. Not ever,...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 4 & 5)
...more than solid feed for those bodies that look as hungry as these do. However if the quantity is ample the quality seems less certain. From this angle the teeth...
Presumed conspicuous
...to feed every consumption choice into a network, no choice is innocent or separate from the value it might create by circulating within that network. No subjective opinion has any...
Get Off
...Axe is so blunt and in your face that an artist was eventually going to have to go up and flirt a little bit with it. Artists don’t have to...
Baby Heists
For the last half century, the international adoption of orphans has been used to cast imperial warfare and extraction as humanitarianism
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
The Honeyed Siphon
...enforcement of diet “may be comparatively easy to effect in private practice [i.e. with those who can afford it]; but in the case of the poor, especially the outpatient poor,...