The Development Imaginary: Tracks*
...most is the effect the development imaginary has had on our freedom dreams. The development imaginary has hobbled our thinking. It continues to limit our dreams. It cannot teach us...
MoW Memorandum
...the non-human, nature and culture. Exhibitions in the MoW are organized around three major themes that rethink the present through waste processes: capital, ecology, and sovereignty. A concluding Zone of...
Beautiful Music
...It's surprisingly hard to find music about personal appearance that isn't, like, gross (though never fear, there's plenty of objectification odes on here, see also Roy Orbison), but I...
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Little Girl?
...terms of easily defined tasks: kill giant demon samurai, kill the androids from iRobot, kill ogres and dragons straight out of Tolkien. This all has something to do with sexy...
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
...and music is excellent and consistently inventive. But everything that puts you in the moment, when you’re watching it, falls apart as soon as you turn your brain back on....
Graphic Interface
...at the end of the 20th century, to a present-based culture now. It’s funny. That talk you and I had after Zuccotti about the letdown of Obama after all that...
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
We Will Never Get Away From The Sprawl
...itself rebellious. Musical culture starting in the mid-1960s helped to expose the suburban fantasy as a hollow and manipulative myth. But that figuration is somewhat worn out half a century...
Can the White Girl Twerk?
...bondage-inspired Versace. She’s taken cues from Rihanna and hip-hop culture at large and added gold chains, even a grill. Sixteen-year-old Miley had never heard a Jay Z song (despite the...
Death by Association
Calling on “black cyberpunk,” Roy Christopher’s book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future bestows the genre with a ghostly pallor, risking its political potential
Trespassing Horizons
Reflections on cybernetics as an ideology of organized oblivion
So Many Secrets
A roundtable on cultural organizing in New York City
The Failure of Bystander Intervention
...be fulfilled, or at least not by one solitary hero. There is an entire culture of violence upholding sexual assault as normal, as just sex. Outside of college guidelines, sexual...
The Fictions and Futures of Transformative Justice
A conversation with the authors of Octavia's Brood.
I Woke Up Like This
...The health rave breaks with party culture by harnessing expenditure to the goal of productivity. It is six AM. I am in an industrial warehouse in Bushwick. Instead of...
Promotional culture on Facebook
...overlook in the midst of all the sharing and self-expression that every Facebook share serves also as an ad for Facebook. It exhibits what Andrew Wernick, in Promotional Culture, calls...