The Revolution Goes Kablooie
...so fast that it went careening completely out of sight? This is, to some degree, the question posed by Adam Thirlwell’s new novel Kapow!, a cyclonic attempt to novelize what...
Gold Star, Brown Family
...the invasion into Iraq that killed this fallen Captain, whose parents she used as pawns. A war like this has done a lot to feed the same fear that bigots...
Reform School
...Capitalists will constantly seek to reshape schooling because their labor supply can always be more efficient BY the time most public commentators are old enough to publish a book,...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...feed on them for several weeks Photograph the new maps 15 Make a work based on the hazards of your job Be specific and unsparing 16 On the night of...
Counter-mapping Complicity
A collective of Palestinian and pro-Palestinians activists are mobilizing towards a global energy embargo of Israel, this is a dispatch from their recent actions in Turkey.
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the blockchain finally solve the problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions?
Sunday Reading
...* Don’t Feed the Psychotic Narcissists * DeAndre McCullough (1977-2012) * The Mystery of Charles Dickens * Gore Vidal's Detective Novels * Justin Bieber initials on all my winter clothes...
All The Hungry Children
...the distance, the worldly space between men where politics matters, the whole realm of human affairs, are located, it remains, politically speaking, irrelevant and without consequence.” Arendt wrote compassion as...
Liquid authenticity
...Frédéric Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital helps clarify how two of the fantasies that feed neoliberal ideology — liquidity and authenticity — interrelate. The two concepts represent two...
What part of NO don’t you understand?
...by any chance? xoxo a, and sibyl replied: oh crap! you're totally right. i can drop it off. i don't think i'm coming to manhattan this weekend but maybe next...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 6 & 7 & 8)
...not fed. Their stomachs unfed feed on the stomach itself until the container becomes the material consumed. This is caused by the order of the world in which we live....
Together We Are None
...also able to stay behind and keep watching through a video feed. There’s a poetic sort of stress about where to go for the authentic experience. Early on, I was...
Not this. More that!
...“I am satisfied.” It is how we process an experience that feeds us. Experiences that feed us can satisfy us. Satisfaction names an evaluative act: not simply “it feels good,”...
Late Night Is All We Have
A diary from two days in Dallas
Sunday Reading
...4,000 aboriginal children died in residential schools North Korea: Did Kim Jong Un Feed His Uncle to the Dogs? Maps and Monsters Cultural Anthropology 2013: Human Nature & Public Debates...
So You Think You’ve Got Class?
Climbing the class ladder in economic irons