A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. There were a number of responses to my text For Art And The World: http://www.valeveil.se/en/pdfs/vv_polemics_wren.pdf I thought I would s...

. The closest that most of us come to direct experience of the centrelessness of capitalism is an encounter with the call centre. As a c...

. The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. The chemico-biologization of mental illnes...

. At one level, to be sure, it might look as if Green issues are very far from being ‘unrepresentable voids’ for capitalist culture. Cli...

. To reclaim real political agency means first of all accepting our insertion at the level of desire in the remorseless meat-grinder of...

. Download my text 'For Art and the World' here. It's part of the Valeveil polemics project: http://new.cdn.valeveil.se/2...

. [This text was originally published in C Magazine #99.] Lene Berg’s artist book arrives in the mail in a zip lock bag. On the front...

. Sometime in 1939, on the eve of the opening of the new building of the Museum of Modern Art on New York’s 53rd Street, an impressively...

. [This text was originally published in C Magazine #92.] In David Markson’s 1996 experimental novel Reader’s Block , sparse, isolat...

. I remember very distinctly at the age of fourteen, a friend, who was verging on adulthood, announced to me that she was suicidal. I si...

. Not to go into this too awfully much, but acquiring permission is a bit weird for me. My shrink says it’s due to a ‘punitive extrovert...

. In some ways, Facebook is the story of Narcissus in technological form. In other ways: Narcissus meets Big Brother. On Facebook, no one ca...

. A frenzy of dissatisfaction: in which one feels any attempts at improvement will only lead to further disappointment, yet the dissatis...

. Hospitality and Resistance An Enemy Is Someone Whose Story You Haven’t Heard Yet Something Might Still Change Every Song I’ve Ev...

. The Heroine of this story; the She, Her, A text written for the artist book Manual which is an artist’s book by Eline McGeorge: http://ww...

. When you know exactly how the magician does every aspect of the trick, but somehow it seems like magic anyways. .

. It is obvious that we are all suspended over the same abyss, even if we use different means in order not to see it. We are all at the ...

. The number of casualties, the carnage and destruction, the area of irredeemable collapse – these were on an even vaster scale in the F...

. That was the last hangover that rainy morning when I knew the choices of the future would be ever more grueling than choices past ...

. the crypto-fascism of everyday life the micro-politics of desire .