My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Day One 1. Now that I have no other place to go, I’ll go into my grandmother’s fingers, wrap myself with her blanket,...
Domesticated WildCats
...plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. ... “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not...
Do You Speak State?
...the Queen and other British authorities have often received replies (all catalogued on www.forvik.com). However, these replies generally involve his questions being forwarded to another office, as civil service bureaucrats...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...
As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28 / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor...
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to...
Disband West Virginia
...level, it will only impede development of a sustainable organ harvesting industry, all the while failing to empty the state completely. Yet if poisoning the water for 300,000 people is...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...doesn’t drive some black Ford with a two-way radio.' —Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' From Slouching Towards Bethlehem, p. 116. The occurrence of appearance should come as no surprise. Fashion...
The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14
...could support one so unlivable. Topics include: birth strikes, Neo-Malthusian and otherwise; animation; hostile objects; material feminist urban design; slapstick; unwaged time. (Seating is limited, please register on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-the-sabotage-of-space-manual-override-lecture-4-tickets-11588885669?aff=efbevent...
Sunday Reading
...the Bugs FFS get Gamergate out of my mentions Notes on Cho-Am: The Myth of Closure Notes on Military-Industrial Complex: Finger on the Button Metagames: Playing at Good and Evil...
Have you read Stendhal?
...same time, be the current. State 2. Feeling and acting like a thing. Audio excerpt from conversation with Jimmy Brodkey, Tape 11, May 2010 [audio:http://www.stereohell.com/audio/brodkey.mp3|titles=A conversation with Jimmy Brodkey] Conversations...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
—“but was it a peaceful protest?”
? ? ? Jabr abu Jordan, "Crossing Lines: Capoeira, Movement, Activism," June 2014 I was looking at a picture of Hamoudeh—Mohammad Azzehs’ nickname—being carried to a waiting...