Fully Operational
...like something Will Smith would kill in a movie. It is mirrored, angular, black, and malevolently futuristic. Critics ranging from the New York Times to parents of NYU students, as...
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...
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...
Some Thoughts on Fruitvale Station, and No Angel
...they have killed, after all, which means it is (perversely) respect for the value of life that allows us to take life without moral penalty. A policeman can kill someone...
The Alcatraz Proclamation: Annotated
...is credited with saying “Kill the Indian and save the man,” a rationale that would come to define attempted genocide disguised as assimilation. While most assume these schools closed in...
Uwe Boll's Weaponized Cinema
...been cheating on her with a number of girls. The creative-writing teacher, frustrated at his inability to write a novel, is confronted by the principal for humiliating students, giving them...
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...
Shelter
...sees a revived literary culture intertwined with the pursuit of political independence, with one leading novelist gaining fame when he described English people working in Scotland as either “settlers” or...
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...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...In 1893, Mary Kingsley found herself with six months to kill, so she went to Africa. But the thing about being a Victorian lady is that you can go...
Troubled Mime
...own behalf. His motives he did not reveal, even after he won acquittal. As to why such a talented man should kill a child, Deburau's biographer Tristan Rémy conjectured that...
Preferential Immunity
...first reaction upon hearing the Ebola news was casual curiosity. It was only upon a doctor friend impressing Ebola’s “it will kill you” nature upon me did I even consider...
Fash at Sea
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Kids in the Haul
...lady? I’m the Marcia-fucking-Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself.” II. About that Starter Mansion Life: Halfway through the 2012 documentary, The Queen of...