Recoil Operation
...than any other developed country,” with a chart featuring predictable comparisons to Japan, Austria, New Zealand, and others on the OECD list of Developed Nations. Though Mexico is certainly “developed”...
In Defense of Spontaneous Contestation and/or Beauty
...at a site he viewed as part of an 'exit culture' of Disneyfied commodity exchange. He bought various packaged commodities—toys and electronics and so forth—but instead of going home he...
Sunday Reading
...by acting Jewishly, not by looking for "Jewish identity" ReclaimUC: Why is an accrediting commission trying to close California's largest public college? Wall St loves frats How the MLA "job...
Terrifying Robot Update, February 24, 2015
...the fruit over the runner’s head and hold it in front of his mouth. (via) Actually to be honest I think that's kind of adora... OH GOD KILL IT...
Anthropocene Realism
...do all the forced smiles and awkward testimonials in the Williston promotional video. It is tempting to dismiss its pathos as the futile efforts of a culture in decline, but...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, March 24, 2015
...At 0:09 is the face you'll see when you wake up to her standing over your bed, knife in hand • • • This classical music is nice...
The Beautiful Struggle
A meditative syllabus on Saidiya Hartman’s book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
The Fake as More
...response, Lana shrugged and said that really, she should’ve tried harder. “Had I known so many people were going to watch [it],” she told The Daily Star in 2012, “I’d...
Pussy Riot's U.S. Tour?
...in the “fatherland.” The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk culture on its head. Where punk was once relegated to musky basements, squats,...
The Honeyed Siphon
...who cannot be made to understand the necessity of abstaining from bread, potatoes, apples etc., it becomes a very difficult task to teach them what to eat, drink and avoid.”...
Sunday Reading
...South Asian Diasporic History Mecca’s Monuments, Seen through the Eyes of Construction Workers Songs of Imperial Authority: The Changing Function of Music From the Timurids to the Safavids Timeliness and...
Subscription Drive
...world why you subscribe to TNI, send your words, pictures, video, whatever to [email protected] and you could find yourself featured on TNI. Help us reach our goal by December 20th...
The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence
How The University of Arizona is entwined with the Genocide Economy
Sunday Reading
...Always Lived with the Franzen (thx, Jane Hu!) Teenage Dreams ReclaimUC: UC --> VC UC's Chief Investment Officer envisions coal-fired power, cement factories as "green" investment opportunities From "Fuck The...
Punk Isn't
...consider: Angry Samoans, The Unboxed Set; Big Black, Songs About Fucking; the Circle Jerks, Group Sex; the Cramps, Bad Music for Bad People; Crass, Stations of the Crass; the Heartbreakers,...
Sunday Reading
...ReclaimUC: In-state undergraduates at UC pay in tuition "nearly twice what it cost the University to provide their education" Monsanto University Oberlin cancellation of classes was demanded by students...