How to Read Žižek These contradictions don’t show that ideology is “irrational” — the problem is exactly the opposite, that there are too many reasons supporting their views. Žižek argues that these piled-up rationalizations demonstrate that something else is going on. Have been a Slavoj Žižek fan follower for a while. Maybe i should read […]
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Scrawl
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Scrawl–Punk Rock for Grown-Ups: A Retrospective So what does it mean to make rock music that speaks for the responsible older sibling; for the friend who cleans up after the party; for the people who won’t leave work early for the party, because they need the extra hours; for Mom? How would that sound? It […]
The future of performance art
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
This Is Not an Interview with Poppy What do you think people will think of social media in the future? People aren’t going to think in the future. We will become one knowing consciousness. What drove you to YouTube as a medium for your work? I like YouTube because it is owned by Google. Google […]
The Mekons
Monday, October 17, 2016
A Skeptic’s Guide To The Mekons If the Mekons were what you claim they are, in other words, everyone would already know and acknowledge it. That they don’t is proof you’re wrong. The irony here is that this line of reasoning is precisely what has always obsessed the Mekons, the very thing that a lot […]
“Blood and Guts TV”
Thursday, October 13, 2016
MOVIE REVIEW: Christine is an arresting biopic about a reporter’s on-air suicide Indeed, seeing both movies is a richer experience than seeing either one alone. One says nobody should make a Christine Chubbuck movie. The other defiantly says, “We’re gonna make it after all.”
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Thursday, October 6, 2016
An embress of textistence and embiddyment aflight […] the nature of the book means that there will be two types of reviews of it. The first type will come from comics and geek-culture websites, whose reviewers have rarely read anything more taxing than X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills. A 1200+-page literary novel is, pretty much […]
astrology
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Stars—They’re Just Like Us! When had astrology become our irrationality of choice? Probably sometime around 2012, when things were not so good for us. When you’re feeling stuck, one way to convince yourself change is in the near to middle distance is to read a horoscope. It didn’t matter that the mechanism by which it […]
A theory
Thursday, August 25, 2016
The Berenstein [sic] Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe In 1992 they were “stEin” in 1992, but in 2012 they were “stAin” in 1992. Some explanations have been proposed. via A.V. Club
“Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
The Friday Poem: “Monica”, by Hera Lindsay Bird And to be able to maintain a friendship Through the various complications of heterosexual monogamy Is enormously difficult Especially when you take into consideration What cunts they all were
