Ranked Amateurs
...a paper his Freshman year, something that was done without his consent. In example after example, the organization publicly shames young men who have simply tried to provide for themselves...
Die progressive Paralyse
...reiteration or as a proof that the simulation is an interpretation]. S-75 confronted this aporia nonetheless, tried to enact a self-factorable simulation [definable by the total number of its nuances],...
Addicted to Failure
...is evidence that its object is something essentially intractable. “These are the ways I’ve tried and failed to manage my life,” my friend says to me. Her bookshelf of dusty...
Venerated Members
...ousted him from Rome and tried to cut out his tongue. The Pope was weak, but his gift allied him powerfully with the symbol of God’s earthly reign. How the...
Yes We Keynes!
...perhaps forgive Quiggin this last sin, though, since, quite frankly, what you and I think matters considerably less than what economists teach and practice. As Keynes himself wrote in the...
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Bad Subjects
...in literature. An overlooked or shameful or abandoned part of the self that we have left to A-Z Dream Dictionary, music video flashback sequences, and Sigmund “royal road to the...
Sunday Reading
...to oblivion Who speaks for British Jews? The History, Myth, and Music of Syrian Druze singer Asmahan [podcast] An Indian Typography Cogs in the wheel: A day in the life...
Tender Potatoes
...After Akerman’s death on October 5, 2015, her longtime cinematographer Babette Mangolte introduced the newly restored Jeanne Dielman at the Museum of Modern Art by noting that, more than ever,...
White Magic
Though it is the subtext of savagery that animates narratives around witches, white women who take up the mantle of witch magic rarely understand themselves to be engaging in Indian or savage play
Sunday Reading
...culture is etched into products that define the player-construct’s existence." Videogames Without Players A review of Kitty Horrorshow's Dust City On Furniture Design in Videogames The Death and Life of...
Rock of Nations
A leader of the Alcatraz Occupation discusses its successful tactics in reversing the federal policy of Indian termination
Chaos Orders Us: A Letter From Paris
Why, all across the globe, does everything that serves to preserve the tradition of the oppressed also serve to oppress COVID-19?
Towards a Black Muslim Ontology of Resistance
...teach me to love Blackness and love Allah nonetheless. In her eyes and in His, I was whole. * * * As Black folks, we are in practice not a...
My Father’s Sign
...like our uncle Aki, who he met on air. Aki came to visit a number of times; he even tried—and failed—to teach me how to hold chopsticks properly. (I still...