A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. ‘Facebook equals Big Brother’ is a common trope of our time. Big Brother where art thou? – a collaboration between Lene Berg and Jacob W...

. I’ve been making art for my entire life and I’ve never felt more lost. In this, I believe I am not alone. Do we care enough about ar...

. It’s incredibly difficult to write a novel with a lot of characters but no protagonist. A novel with a number of equally interesting, ...

. Overanalyzing something that is actually, in fact, pretty stupid, like an unwillingness to admit how basic and manipulative the factor...

. When I first heard the phrase ‘workfare’ (a kind of welfare where the recipient is forced to work) my knee jerk reaction was that it w...

. Anyone tried this joke yet, which only works if you tell it in the U.S.: "Who do you have to kill to get re-elected in this count...

. My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity...

. Then I was reading about Jean-Luc Nancy, apparently he had a heart transplant 10 years ago, and when his body was rejecting the foreig...

. I have the feeling that affects don’t exist, that affects are just emotions viewed through the distorting lens of critical distance. ...

. I am really not trying to be cynical. Actually I think the dilemma to some degree flows from the very nature of politics. One thing t...

Two short passages from Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman : The time came for Bill and Grace to enact a kind of divestiture service in whi...

. YouTube is not just video. YouTube exists somewhere between home movies, commercials, video art, diary, b-movies and cinema. Or something ...

. What do we think of the sentiment ‘all art is propaganda’ when placed beside it’s apparent opposite, the idea of ‘art for arts sake.’ But,...

About six monts ago I posted a YouTube play list of 83 videos . In the accompanying commentary I wrote that "what I realize in a wa...

. Lust is reactionary. It is not only that he smiles when he kills. It’s that only when he kills is his smile truly genuine. I hate ...

. Against Virno's 'Post-Fordism is the communism of capital.' we reply 'Neoliberalism is the totalitarianism of capital....

. Neoliberalism is the totalitarianism of capital. .

. To me, capitalism feels like a pure evil corroding the surface of the planet. However, I realize that from this emotional-ideological posi...

. 1. Sentences (some plagiarized, others not) Most blues are subtitled either no sense of wonder or no sense of scale It was like an emotion...

. The relation between fluctuating electronic signals and human attention has become a central component of social experience, from Wall...