Speaking in Memes
...culture, a parallel to the biological gene in Richard Dawkins’s original coinage. Many have since adapted the term to describe how cultural products pass virally from person to person by...
Sunday Reading
...el reverendo (Pedro Pietri) en la memoria Actually Aisha: Covering Dalit Atrocities in a Savarna Newsroom In defense of fat sadness Inside the Culture of Abuse in Indian Theatre What...
California
...of the cozy 4,000-square- foot homes along the Orange County coastline, detecting in their stucco right angles and overstuffed pillows the glimmerings of a queer suburban culture. Holding down the...
Festival Life
...also be seen as a symptom of the halcyon days of economic collapse. The shopping mall as site zombified consumer culture has been a trope in popular cinema as long...
Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?
Gaslighting and Dolezalean logic
The Clock Inside Us
...body and embed it within the culture of busyness. If clocks are agents that shape human actions, is it valid to assume that clocks are an “other”? By making sure...
The Madman's Interpreters
...culture. But maybe their particular power, a power that can be almost scary, comes from their inability or refusal to find or accept a niche, to fit in. Certainly artists...
You Belong Here, Beloved Reader - An Interview with Diriye Osman
"I really wanted The Butterfly Jungle to have the energy of a super-fly Somali sheesha session"
Sleepwalking Through the Ruins
...the terrain of Signs and Machines, which begins in the deep canyon of subject formation and wends its way over the darkling plain of late-capitalist culture before arriving at the...
Turn Down for What?
...whether or not Negarestani draws this term from Trotskyist turned Neoconservative culture warrior David Horowitz, who used “kitsch Marxism” first in his 1999 book Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes...
Appetite for Destruction
...is what best channels the substance of American culture, its mediated violence, into a single ritual. It systematizes technology, brute force, and drama into an event capable of creating beauty,...
There is no such thing as “The Court of Public Opinion” (but maybe there should be).
...culture is a thing, but wants us to respect the great firewall that protects people accused of crimes from a democratic mass that can’t be trusted; DeBoer, on the other...
Six years (and counting) of circlusion
...results, “On Circlusion,” at Mask Magazine in the summer of 2016. Ever since, especially in the semi-offline and subterranean passageways of global queer culture, the text has enjoyed cult classic...
Kenya's Security Act: Everyday Life
...plan how to raise more funding to generate more documents. Radical Culture Spaces for radical culture will have to be fostered—spaces where the imagination can travel beyond what the state...
Frequently Asked Questions
...and offer a real editing process and a space for reflection and critique on issues of race, gender, labor, family, love, music, sickness, sexuality, faith, trash, money, everything. All this...
Vol. 9: Concept Album
...is not to revel in cynicism or absolve complacency through defeat but to acknowledge that music nurtures despair as often as it redeems it. It instills feelings of exclusion with...