Extremists in The Mainstream
...in as best I could for the duration of my research. For 10 months, I held my tongue until I nearly choked on it. Living on a settlement was killing...
Sunday Reading
...Twitterpolitics Borrowed Images The Revolution Will Be Tweeted (the inevitable lede) Musical Militancy Carta de Rubén Blades a Nicolás Maduro Nicolás Maduro responde a Ruben Bladés (y muestra su...
Police Mortality
...extracted hundreds of scenes. Many are hilarious out of context, in which police are killed, kill, or otherwise act piggish. Impressively, the clips communicate well enough with one another to...
The Plague Years
...is more virus than video and whether it’s dangerous in some way, though this kind of question can be addressed with variations on familiar critiques of mass culture. But a...
America is Hungry, Let's Eat
...and impunity that separated one regime of law from another. Between the space of French law and German law, for example, there obtained a different law, no-law. You could kill...
Superman/Everyman
...that which does not kill us makes us stronger, with the exception of Kryptonite. But the midcentury fascination with the terrifying idea of the Übermensch reached its extreme in Clarence...
Life Is Too Much Like Real Life
...has nothing you can kill, and being killed is a function that has been devolved onto the living. Meanwhile, those who have been living in denial about all the killing...
Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 2
...confident that Hillary would win, it's time to finally kill the liberal in our heads and start thinking in a more clear-eyed manner about the way the world works. Let...
#mybodymyhome (i)
...dismissed as “minor,” “trivial,” “irrelevant.” Hon. Duale’s colleague, Hon. Mulu, argued, “in the Kamba culture, there is nothing like sexual harassment when you are dealing with a wife or husband....
Labor Pains
...for surrogates to withdraw labor, to suspend production is to kill. The life-or-death entanglements of conception, birth, and kinship are thus a partially unenclosed commons, a source of joy yet...
"Healthy" Nationalism?
...American flags were in fashion, I asked my politics teacher why we (Germans) weren’t allowed to wear our own flag. He said there was a time when we were allowed...
Walter White Supremacy
...special meth that only he can make because it's pure and a scientist made it with stainless steel and it's blue. That's how a timid high school teacher became a...
The Paradox of Progress
...called progress. Displayed alongside colonized and conquered peoples W.J.T. Mitchell gives a great overview about the multiple connections between dinosaur culture at the American frontier in The Last Dinosaur Book,...
Les Saignantes @ The Morbid Anatomy Museum
...and nightlife is dominated by the exclusive wakes of Very Important People. When two young women, Majolie and Chouchou, kill a senior politician, they make a plan to wrest power...
Econospeak
...and corporations doing, if not constantly “re-establishing themselves” as “market players?” These mantras have been the refrain of HR manuals for decades, but their crossover into pop culture has been...
Terrifying Robot Update: Friday, July 25, 2014
...machine age—we are close to concluding the second one—we are moving into the third one. And there is probably no fourth one. No shit. They're gonna kill us all....