A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
The White Market
...supremacist glee. The Mexicans can wave their skill and experience around, but the science equipment knows objective quality, and there's no competing with the only white guy in the room....
Ill-Starred Lives
...elephant obeyed. The gunsmith meanwhile raised a carbine to his shoulder, took aim and fired. The explosive steel-tip bullet it discharged struck home, but it did not kill Castor. Blood...
All Eyez on Not-Me
...Kill, and Nirvana. It’s surprising that such a notoriously skeptical generation seems to have embraced (or at least not dismissed outright) Holopac. As a culture we are seemingly obsessed with...
Pasado Compuesto
...Dadi Dreucol (con On_ly), No future, Valencia 2012. All images come from the blog Escrito en la pared. A new social epidemic is gripping Spain: the foreclosure suicide...
Carceral Capitalism
Parasitic governance, as a modality of the new racial capitalism, uses five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automated processing, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence.
Sunday Reading
...Moral Economy of Tech Ada Kaleh: The Story of an Island Kerim Friedman: I, the Holocaust, Am Your God President of the Philippines urging the public to kill drug addicts...
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...
Sunday Reading
...Decolonisation of the Mind Capitalism simply isn't working and here are the reasons why Why We’re in a New Gilded Age Obituary of a culture Draw Your Professor ...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
None of You
...once observed, bourgeois reformers never solve the problems created by capitalism, because they cannot address the root causes; since you can’t just kill the poor, the next best thing is...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
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...
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...