Sunday Reading
...stole the education from its black children "Even if the police don’t kill me, a lifetime of preparing for them to just might." Kitabet: Wonder and the Ends of Inquiry...
Testing
...them. As a high school cheater, Lauren O’Neal recounts, sharing answers felt like solidarity. Cheating provided a precious moment of support — which was manifestly absent from teachers who imposed...
On Rage and Swagger
...There are things that make us enraged, above all ways of death: when police kill unarmed teenagers, when states murder behind the veil of law, when bands of racists go...
A Thorn in the Occupier's Eye
a dispatch from Dahye, published in collaboration with the New York War Crimes
Life: Why Bother?
...want to purposely kill all those zygotes, infants and/or pre-adolescents to swell heaven’s ranks? A more palatable solution might be for hell-believers to accept the logic of the sectarian repugnant...
Vol. 76 Editors’ Note: Assets
Just how much?
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...the community, might turn out to innovate the future. After all, who is it that cleared the American frontier of its native detritus, making it possible for us to create...
Sunday Reading
...prison strikes in US history A growing grassroots movement in Mexico is resisting the US-backed drug war "'We’re going to kill all of you,' the [police] officers warned." Aaron Cantú:...
Blogs Round Up
...the idea that if we got rid of the objects themselves, the desire for them, the need for them, and the culture that is built around them and makes them...
The Plague Years
...is more virus than video and whether it’s dangerous in some way, though this kind of question can be addressed with variations on familiar critiques of mass culture. But a...
Do yoga and vote
...it to become coal and vote Kill time and vote Lock the doors of a Bikram studio from the outside and giggle and vote Strip time's carcass for parts and...
personal crusade against alzheimer’s
...douglas huebler, duration piece #31, boston, 1974: one silly concept (kill them all), roughly shooting time. although the huebler piece --and onofre's evenly-- doesn't immerse me into nostalgia, powerlessness, is...
Born to Lose
...the game — a hallucinatory murderer is compelled to kill, and the quick repetition of appearing and dying pushes that hallucination onto the viewer. While it’s often lamented that video...
Vol. 23 Editors' Note: Shelter
...Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. In Scotland, Cal Flyn sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he...
Un(der)seen Cinema: The Decline of Western Civilization
...fucking life is a wreck / we're desperate / get used to it it's kiss or kill / coca-cola and a motorola kitchen / nauga-hyde and a tie-dye t-shirt /...
Assets
...culture war wins, targets had already been locked. We’ve reached the expiration date on the neoliberalism and austerity that Western democracies long relied upon to maintain a mask of civility...