The Mirror-Slave Dialectic
...on me and who looks to me for affirmation of his language skills; 2) having drinks with someone who talked over every word I tried to utter; 3) meeting with...
Moral belief as aesthetic stance
...would say yes; Camille Paglia would laugh derisively, then say no. Willis' phrase "the values of civilization" is frustratingly vague--is this civilization in the sense of culture (the arts), or...
Desecration Hardware, 3 (The Trestle Salvaged Table in Salvaged Black Finish)
...probably false fireplace, where F. was standing. Cuba, she said. What? The photo, the one T. tried to escape through. It’s Cuba, I recognize it. I don’t know how, but...
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
Sickness Unto Death
...but American society at large. Ours is a culture that pushes to see the eldest members of our families safe and secure above all else. We don’t see that the...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...the doors themselves, the silent violence of the chipping, the queer burnishing, almost as if trying to gain a grip on what could not be... We knew. Someone had tried...
Working Beauty
...subjects, and certainly not the students. If she tried, she’d be terminated or worse: Clara threatens her with vague but menacing consequences if she misbehaves. And what does the doctor...
Tracing Ana
...apartment window under what can only be referred to as suspicious circumstances. Her husband, heralded artist Carl Andre, was tried and ultimately acquitted of murder, earning him a new sobriquet:...
Not Your Friend: Dissensus and the Police
...nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means...
Marginal Returns
...Martin and Bill Duke are on the underemployment line. The studio tried to muscle both movies into the conversation late in the year, but neither quite got there in the...
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...and, after ordering it to disperse, tried to force the issue by beating the crowd with what are euphemistically called batons but in practice tend to break ribs and bruise...
For the Win: Failure!
...in: when corporate interests come into conflict with a democratically elected president, corporations will win, every time. After all, when Jimmy Carter tried to create a sensible energy policy, oil...
Where the Fire's Still Burning
...police force or the military was held responsible for not interfering. Thirty-three people were tried and convicted of 'attempting to destroy constitutional order' and given death penalties, which were converted...
Dark Pools
...tried. The map was published by the Federal Reserve following the 2008 crash, and though the image was made publicly available, it is intended for experts. Some mainstream-media outlets paid...
You Make Me Swoon
An edited excerpt from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan