I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Core Values
..., a pale yellow-skinned apple splashed and striped with two shades of red, and the Cabbage-Head, a vigorous grower and good bearer whose flesh, though a bit coarse, was juicy,...
♫ Roxane ♫
...attorney or the magical negro—roles relegated to the background and completely lacking in authenticity, depth, or complexity.” Viola Davis calls these roles, “the fried-chicken special of the day” that “hold...
Arguing the Web (3): Post-Text
...passive, the other archaically physical. The record, not the remix, is the anomaly today. The remix is the very nature of the digital.” Gibson’s wording is a bit extreme. What...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...will not move no friends not one bit A dissolve makes clear that many hours have passed, twilight has fallen. In that time passed they must have come to an...
I’m So Into Avoiding You
An email exchange between Grace Lavery and Charlie Markbreiter
Sunday Reading!
...couldalso have a headache???), allow me to say this: HOOOOOO MY GOD FUCK US ALL BECAUSE THIS MOVIE GOT BIT BY A RADIOACTIVE GARBAGE AND IT IS A FUCKING MONSTERPIECE...
No Choice but Freedom
...Communism, what they are saying is that markets more effectively produced discipline. It was more successful at imposing patterns of human action and restriction conducive to military and economic production...
Portrait of an Iranian Witch
...rather than its metaphysical efficacy: as literature (the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Paulo Coelho) or as jewelry (talismanic motifs have recently come into vogue). Mersedeh, I sensed,...
On Pageantry, the Virgin Mary, and the Smart Girl
...Christmas pageant, 1930, plus witch. My parents raised me in the Methodist church, halfheartedly. The “halfhearted” part would come as no surprise to anyone seated within two...
Permanent Display
...the cloth. That was an integral part of my identity. The hair in my face was a bit shamanic. In fact it added more constraints. I saw poorly and I...
Beyond the Internet and All Control Diagrams
...contra-Internet because they reveal that social movements no longer necessarily see the Internet as a political horizon--it is, rather, about finding something else. This is where the commons comes in...
Artistic autonomy and subsumption
...means of self-abnegation, the alibi of using social media to make human capital is more effective. It better disguises the compulsion as productive, efficient. It masks the experience of this...
Adventures in the Cash Nexus
...But to say that the “market” exerts this malign influence of emotional alienation is a bit of a dodge. What Hochschild ends up exploring in The Outsourced Self is how...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Noshing with Nomads
...in terms of unusually stressful events. I feel this fact palpably. Relieving my stress a bit is the fact that I’m headed for a boskier part of New England than...