The Last Witch Hunter
...the two halves of his personality, the devout and the unconventional. These impulses had once been distinctly at odds, but as the landscape around him changed, and modern culture began...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
Our Man in Great Neck
...book by Henry Kissinger, another wanted a photography book. As people came out, they brought the requests of refuseniks who were still there, and we tried to follow through. So...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Celluloid Coven
...I just watched how the blood coagulated in the water. It became something decidedly non-cinematic. But we sat on that trampoline and we tried to create a ritual that would...
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...
The Thin Blue Lie
...and it will almost inevitably have a positive effect on the quality of the litigation. But this doesn’t change the fact that the cases will still be tried by judges...
Ambient awareness
...A reposting of one of my Buzzfeed Community posts for archival purposes When Twitter first started, its boosters tried to sell it as supplying “ambient awareness” and fostering...
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...
On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway)
Transmasculinity, feminism, and the politics of online
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...
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.
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone
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...
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:...