Precarious Verse
..."to speak/to think are generic habits of the human animal, the opposite of any sort of specialization." These generic habits of the human animal delineate the field of value creation,...
Buying the Future
...there only particular, individual, material things out there, with generic names arising only from social conventions? Or are there ideal Platonic universal entities, which exist separately from individual iterations of...
Lost in the Supermarket
...story “The Feeling of Power,” Isaac Asimov imagined a future in which everyone has a pocket-sized computer, and humanity pays a great price. Specifically, we forget how to do basic...
Being Damien Hirst
...of the new generation are called to join in the carousel, or production-line, churning out their visionary, uncommodifiable commodities, which have acquired in the meantime a price tag in accordance...
Death Stares
...replete with snazzy filters. As more people go online, impromptu and unintentional memorials arise and dead people’s accounts become virtual shrines and spaces for collective grief. By Facebook’s 10th anniversary...
We Real Cool
The conflation of Black Cool and Black politics is a hurdle to social organizing
"It Continues Not To End": Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
...from Kenya has been online: the ICC Witness Project, for one, but also the Jalada writers collective—whose anthology is coming out soon as an e-book—a site called Brainstorm Kenya, which...
Open Secrets: Literature as Gossip in the Digital Age
...photos, endlessly falsified and therefore perfectible online personas, we are all invited to construct ourselves closer to what we dream of being than what we simply are. Authenticity becomes a...
Security Culture Is Good
...it’s a cliché because it’s the best advice for people looking to easily protect themselves online. But neither of these tools is foolproof, meaning they won’t necessarily stop the cops...
The Semiautobiographers
...helps us see, the attempt to order experience needn’t represent an acquiescence to some oppressive authority. It can also be a — perhaps our best — chance at liberation....
Long Live Said
...the American establishment was made to pay a price professionally and personally. And those of us who had the temerity to teach about Palestine or put Edward Said on our...
Best in Show
...shows will put on their best cowboy boots), but comfortably enough to run, jump, chase, and otherwise wrangle potentially unpredictable creatures. You don’t dress to complement yourself; you’re dressing to...
Conversación Los Abajocomunes
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in conversation on the occasion of the Spanish translation of The Undercommons
I Want to Believe
...agree.” Nick and I learned that the global political order is coordinated by a tiny cabal whose tentacles extend to every aspect of society — political power, the production of...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...commodity markets. All online everything. Harun Farocki, Eye/Machine II, 2002 Still, it seems right to assert that almost no other machine – not the phone itself but the set of...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...or burned in order to keep the global price of wheat high. The minutely detailed and explanatory emphasis on the means of this process and the sudden evacuation of their...