Just the Facts
...the scientific objectivity of the technocrat might finally resolve political disagreement or at least convey some bit of truth to those reasonable enough to listen. But stubborn ideological opponents can...
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
...Lunch in the Car -- Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island 06/1973 --From The U.S. National Archives "So to sum up, there is a small bit of the macrocosm inside...
A Deluxe Apartment in the Sky
...time, facing scenarios every bit as complex as their white counterparts. The end of some long-running white sitcoms like Seinfeld made way for new post-Friends millennium favorites such as How...
Occupy A Bank
...the internet in mind. McKenzie Wark has written about the effective occupation of internet territory and the media. The occupation is building bit by bit, spreading to cities from Boston...
Vinyl re-enchantment
...its completion. It keeps me flipping through crates, looking for a lottery-like payout. Record stores are a bit like thrift stores in that they produce a sense of rarity and...
National Disgrace
...even know that huge numbers of young people are arrested daily for possessing a bit of marijuana. There are substantial numbers of wealthy individuals who fund efforts to change gay...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...of hate. It bears an enormous amount in common with Farocki’s films, albeit shot through with a bitter jag of melancholy. There’s a moment in it where Anders recounts a...
The Souls of Ivy Folk
...People be released in the same world where, as its protagonist Sam puts it, “Big Momma’s House 3 exists.” And it might seem a bit hyperbolic, but I’ll write it...
Bend It Like Benglis
...editors’ personal sensibilities but also of the larger (and conveniently undefined) “aims of [the women’s] movement.” Another grievance: As art writers and editors, these five felt professionally compromised by their...
Sowing Scarcity
...enforcing the patent when virtually all available stocks of soybean seeds contained the Roundup Ready genes: “While farmers, like Bowman, may have the right to use commodity seeds as feed,...
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.
Sunday Reading
...lead is played out" "Together, we can end barfing. Let's hold hands. And then wash them furiously in scalding water." "If there's no water and no feed, you move the...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.16.12
...prints really come from? (via Final Fashion) St. Makeup: Cosmetics line founder gives "makeovers" to abandoned religious statues in shuttered churches. I only have eyes for you: Thoroughly freaked out...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
...I use it up until it evaporates, tucking it away for another month, another year, where I'll feed voraciously on it again. Spontaneously, I look up the etymology of the...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...