All violence, all desecration against the commons begins with a perception of weakness in the other. In this case HItchbot and and his keepers were other.
Iowa, The Middle of Nothingness
I even wonder if, among white people, the vague myth of Iowa as representative isn’t a national delusion.
What It Takes To Be Violent: An Appreciation of Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales
Text bears violence, accompanies violence, and flies off of it, in every direction.
The End of the Jurassic World Is Nigh
What does it mean when a cultural text is positioning itself as a ravenous chimera, as something that needs to be destroyed?
Cautious Vitality: New Developments in Contemporary Czech Poetry
Czech poets want change, but if possible without the risk of creating explosions with their experiments and new approaches.
I never felt comfortable in groups of kids that I was told were “like me,” born disabled. Like Dolezal, I insisted that what you could see of my body was contrary to who I actually was.
By merely wandering, the dérivist frustrates the spatial logic of capitalism, in the process discovering new currents, fissures, and vortices of possibility within a deeply familiar space.
The ability to choose is a luxury, a delightful freedom, a tricky exercise for a mammal that probably never imagined it would be asked to decide so much.
We have to go through an extraordinarily complex entanglement of experiences, norms, and systems of power and control to even scratch the surface of the political in popular music.
The Collapse of the Ancien in Thailand
When thinking about Thailand’s next act, about the royal drama revolving around the banished-capitalist Thaksin and the prince, I couldn’t lose the image of Falstaff and Prince Hal.