Death and the Maiden
...To move beyond the death drive would not restore an earlier state of things but kill the present one, including its division of life into two distinct genders. “Splintered fragments...
How to Win Tinder
...kill. Meeting IRL: wham, pow, ya dead. I “killed it” one Sunday morning when I was messaging with three women — complete strangers — simultaneously, in bed, ignoring the world...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
Sunday Reading
...Moral Economy of Tech Ada Kaleh: The Story of an Island Kerim Friedman: I, the Holocaust, Am Your God President of the Philippines urging the public to kill drug addicts...
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
Sunday Reading
...to understand the police dog as not simply a ‘crime fighter’, but a potent ‘technology of state power’ Miniskirts and Kangas: the Use of Culture in Constituting Postcolonial Sexuality...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
Dear Marooned Alien Princess
...I got” kinda way. I always say isms are systemic abuse culture and this is basically a prime example given this is the kind of uncomfortable situation you get when...
Masters of Suspicion
...countries like Mexico or Colombia, or, for that matter, of the persistence of the revolutionary socialist government in Cuba. When militants of the Mexican Ejercito Popular Revolucionario kill soldiers and...
Labor Does You
What if we really felt the politics of uterine work to be comparable to other labors?
Why Witches Can’t Have It All
...two roles—employing her powers to prank a man vs. to kill a man, for example—go on and on. Bewitched is the story of Isabel Bigelow (Kidman), a witch who is...
None of You
...once observed, bourgeois reformers never solve the problems created by capitalism, because they cannot address the root causes; since you can’t just kill the poor, the next best thing is...
Fear of an Ape Planet
...and tears up the lab, forcing Franco’s boss to shut down the project and kill all the chimps. (Un)Luckily, Franco smuggles Bright Eyes’s son Ceasar (who has inherited his mother’s...
White Defenders
“Self-defense” in America safeguards the privileges of white men as possessors of property, arbiters of sexual access, and inflictors of violence.
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism