The Revolution that Wasn't
...capturing the scene behind him. The gas clouds soon enveloped him when I tried to talk to him, and, dazed by inhalation, I had to help him off the front...
What It Takes to Build Your Credit: "Urban Zoning," by Billy Kahora, Week Two of Blogging the Caine
...to observe that Stephen has done a lot of the work in framing this story that I would have tried to do, and which I would have done much less...
Margot, Not at the Wedding
...plot, and tried to annul her dangerous sexuality by reconstituting it as love of the first man, La Mole, who really tempted her. (See also, among others: Princess Di.) The...
Tiktok LLM
Tiktok's opaque censorship protocol has led to the development of euphemisms adopted offline too, but the language acquisition users are modeling has precedent.
Enigma Deviations
...intelligence services tried to de-risk themselves by expelling “perverts” in Turing’s time. A Foucauldian story could be told about the transition from a mode of governance that compelled self-transparent subjects...
Un(der)known Writers: Diane di Prima
...our own music From Revolutionary Letters. Diane di Prima celebrated her 80th birthday this April, and her newest book of poetry, The Poetry Deal, was just released in September....
Sunday Reading
...Rights "the memory of a revolution reaches much further back than the memory of its protagonists" Coming Home: Queer South Asians and the Politics of Family Music's New Genre: ISIS...
A Game Is Being Beaten
...influence from outside beloved gaming, comics, and sci-fi culture is often scorned outright, when something seems to “work,” is popular, or oft-discussed, it will surely be repeated. Making the player...
Reviving Cabiria
...familiar institutions of Italian culture, all of which seem to have lost some majesty after the war. He skewers the Catholic Church when Cabiria and a caravan of prostitutes journey...
Waiting For
...live in a culture that can make murderous white men with guns a lot faster than they are—occasionally, rarely, almost never—sent to prison. You don’t get justice by occasionally, rarely,...
Teenage Screams
...As if he can’t even bop around in his room without a lens present, Marc puts on music and dances alone in front of his laptop. His expression shifts from...
Sunday Reading: August 20, 2023
...In this piece, the duo drills down the relationship to Riley’s sonic projects and filmography––including the music-forward way he is conceptualizing his work. If Sorry to Bother You is the...
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...
Where the Fire's Still Burning
...police force or the military was held responsible for not interfering. Thirty-three people were tried and convicted of 'attempting to destroy constitutional order' and given death penalties, which were converted...
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...
Fucking Like a Housewife
From On Becoming Undone