Crazy in Love
...forms of meaning will be allowed to disperse freely. The term schizo-culture is not meant to refer to the actual disease, which renders people unglamorously confused and incapable of basic...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...kill themselves more often than other professionals. Statistically speaking, doctors have the highest suicide rates. Nonetheless, because of their special relationship with language, writers have a special relationship to death...
Objects of Derision
...harassing, jailing, and killing of that community by the police, even if occasionally “excessive,” is merely a fact of “management” of the basic social anger that already is. Needless to...
Daughters Have Their Own Agenda
...by her waiting and especially by her waiting for a cheater, a no-good, and also some light vision of universal progress, both the degrader and carrier of culture. In an...
Fear of a Muslim Planet
...front, Ferrigno mines a rich vein of unease that surfaces in both liberal-popular and left-intellectual culture. Though ultimately — the trilogy argues — left and right fears are branches of...
The Sovereign Double-Standard
...Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is particularly distinct from all the other war crimes it has been committing, now, for over two years; if you kill with gas, the...
Cold Cases
...was the combination of Oak Beach’s insularity, geographic diversity, and law enforcement apathy that let these women stay missing for so long. Serial killers have said they targeted prostitutes because...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...not kill themselves more often than other professionals. Statistically speaking, doctors have the highest suicide rates. Nonetheless, because of their special relationship with language, writers have a special relationship to...
Dead and Going to Die
...Powell was to kill the secretary of state, and their co-conspirator, George Atzerodt, was to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Atzerodt failed to attempt the assassination altogether. Powell followed through...
Paradoxes: On Suicide and Literature
...both, of one through the other and back again: suicide has a great deal in common with literature. Though the number of famous writer-suicides is staggering, writers do not kill...
Found Poetry
...pains to spare them It will be hard, complicated, and costly, controversial but fabulous, To spare them isn’t trying to kill civilians poised. It’s taking A Tough Response at the...
Search teams with ampliation
...Four problems with this: a) Women rarely use guns to kill themselves. b) I have never heard of a nurse shooting herself. c) I have talked to four of the...
Un(der)known Writers: Silvia Federici
...(circa 1010), after the ritual question– "Have you done what some women are accustomed to do when they fornicate and wish to kill their offspring, act with their maleficia, and...
Blue Life
A movement that conjures the specter of an enemy that it seeks to annihilate
No, That Wasn’t Our Happiness
...the working-class waitress Susan Sarandon screams, “Words like that could kill a person if you don’t mean it,” after James Spader, who plays her younger yuppie lover, tells her he’s...
It's so hard to know what role, if any.
...been confirmed that he left these comments) that are apparently threats to kill people based on their religion. None of this has been confirmed; none of it is objective fact....