Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
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...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Celluloid Coven
...I just watched how the blood coagulated in the water. It became something decidedly non-cinematic. But we sat on that trampoline and we tried to create a ritual that would...
The Mirror-Slave Dialectic
...on me and who looks to me for affirmation of his language skills; 2) having drinks with someone who talked over every word I tried to utter; 3) meeting with...
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...
The Thin Blue Lie
...and it will almost inevitably have a positive effect on the quality of the litigation. But this doesn’t change the fact that the cases will still be tried by judges...
Ambient awareness
...A reposting of one of my Buzzfeed Community posts for archival purposes When Twitter first started, its boosters tried to sell it as supplying “ambient awareness” and fostering...
On Hating Men (And Becoming One Anyway)
Transmasculinity, feminism, and the politics of online
Pleasure Gardens: Blackouts and the Logic of Crisis in Kashmir
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas contextualize the twin-snake history of Israel and India and how the occupation of Palestine informs the occupation of Kashmir.
Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live: Gabriel García Márquez's Memory
...of Colombian folk culture. Second, there is the “Faulknerian revolution” story that people like Pascale Casanova put forward, where William Faulkner modeled a particular way of being a writer in...
We paralyze the everyday reproduction of the working class
...be translated as “deepening”: deepening one’s social isolation by means of the further demands produced by another child. But we should add that the more capital tried to increase the...
Steal This Article
...the country, there are 28 empty homes waiting for them right now. Laws and culture deny them a roof over their head, not a dearth of roofs. It is our...
Boardwalk YOLO and ASMR videos
...then while I am at it, I resent their music and their fashion and their Facebook pages and everything else.) People now enjoy an experiential privacy that's anchored to their...
The History of Dialogue (5): Snobs on Snobbery
...music (or organic food or fine wine or fashionable clothing) I would say, secretly complimenting myself for my magnanimity. Reading Finnegan’s Wake has reminded me of an essential difference between...
An Interview with Michel Gondry
...arguments for generative grammar and I like that he tried to find the heart of the mechanism, going around recording the ways people speak in primitive cultures and finding not...