New lows
...two different ideas, somehow conflictual, but as w/ music, 'news exceed reality' (thomas bernhard) and, simultaneously, fades in the next spumous moment. non-stop.“ […] Guy Debord: “The spectacle presents itself...
Astral Projections
...history and culture, evidence of this is slowly being erased from the face of the earth. I cannot access Jerusalem now and only memories of it remain, making reality as...
Said is Dead. Long Live Said! @ City College 9/27
...of war and terror. This panel brings together individuals working in a range of contemporary activist-intellectual forms – art, music, poetry, journalism, social media, and academic scholarship – to consider...
Travel and Anti-Travel @ Mansion 1/14
... An evening of reading and music based on travel, anti-travel, epistles, history, and other weary geographies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi will read from two forthcoming books: epistolary fiction...
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
...recently, reputation-management companies like Reputation.com are eager to help with this, offering to monitor mentions of you and develop mop-up strategies for problems. They also hope in the future to...
No, You're Already Pretty
...massively. I guess the "advice" I'd extrapolate from that is to remember that your style is a response to your environment, its a conversation with your culture. If you don't...
(Pro)Creating Science: The Parenting Metaphor, Gender, and Scientific Memory
...scientists’ contributions without having to continuously excavate them from obscurity. Further Reading Evelyn Fox Keller, Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Science and Culture (Routledge, 2014). Carol Cohn,...
I ♥ Ⓐ
...less devoted to reporting as a profession than as a means of learning about stuff I'm curious about. And the Occupy culture was constantly making demands upon one to step...
K in Love
...and the spikes of the E cutting into our palms, blood pooling at the centre of the O. Either it (love) was the blandishments of culture seducing us, Robert Pattinson...
Dogshit Orgasm
...he started publishing the magazine Cannabis Culture. Through the seed catalogue and the magazine, the recreational smoker became literate in boutique strain names. The thirst for knowledge and seeds extended...
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Trust In Me, Baby
...alone, which I’d done the year before. I hear the culture has radically shifted since then (I haven’t been back since I was 24), but at the time, if you...
Thanksgiving is Bullshit
...Day. While the Fourth of July commemorates American independence from Great Britain—on the field of battle and print culture, with the publication of the Declaration of Independence—her vision of a...
Mourning
...the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to an original loss. Laqueur’s new book on death unearths the...
Spy vs. History
...Vietnam, there’s no real hope of parity; The Sympathizer is up against a much greater volume of weaponized culture. The spy models that difficulty while working as a technical consultant...
Vol. 31 Editor's Note: Mourning
...In an interview with historian Thomas Laqueur, Hannah Black floats the idea that human culture itself can be thought of as an elaborate work of mourning, our lives beholden to...