Articles 2/2

Jun 22, 202152 min read

Surveillance Capitalism

Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney The United...

Jun 16, 20216 min read

The Man Who Has Everything: Mark Fisher on Drake’s Nothing Was the Same

Originally published September 24, 2013. Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No...

Jun 6, 202121 min read

HR Managers of the Human Soul: On Our Own American Zhdanovshchina

by Justin E. H. Smith via Substack 1. In a speech to the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow in 1934, Central Committee...

Jun 6, 20216 min read

Three Arguments About Love by Mary Harrington

Beyond zero-sum relations between the sexes via Reactionary Feminist In the context of technology that progressively removes natural...

Jun 6, 20219 min read

Like Rain on Your Wedding Day

Between the sentimental, the gothic, and the ironic CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN via Bookforum WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE NARRATIVE MODE to capture...

Apr 17, 20211 min read

Fuck Nuance by Kieran Healy

Abstract Nuance is not a virtue of good sociological theory. Although often demanded and superficially attractive, nuance inhibits the...

Apr 1, 20215 min read

abject feminism, by indiana seresin

For a long time I’ve been thinking about abject feminism. My working definition is that it is what happens when white cishet bourgeois...

Mar 19, 202116 min read

"Incorporate Everything, Understand Everything - Norman Rush’s Mating at thirty" by Scott Sherman

“In Africa, you want more, I think.” With that laconic affirmation begins one of the strangest and most sublime American novels of the...

Mar 17, 20214 min read

Movies, Movies, Movies by Natasha Stagg

This week, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “strange to have come of age reading great novels of ambition, substance, & imagination...

Mar 7, 20211 min read

I think about this all the time:

"Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" by R.S. Benedict MODERN ACTION AND SUPERHERO FILMS FETISHIZE THE BODY, EVEN AS THEY...

Mar 5, 20211 min read

"The Dawn of the Quaranzine" by Rachel Tashjian for GQ

https://www.gq.com/story/drunken-canal-new-now-zines We need one of these in LA. Here is an illicit screenshot of The Drunken Canal for...

Mar 3, 20211 min read

For Goodness’ Sake: The self-conscious drama of morality in contemporary fiction

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/the-self-conscious-drama-of-morality-in-contemporary-fiction-24022 by Lauren Oyler

Mar 3, 20211 min read

Dark Ecology: Searching for truth in a post-green world

https://orionmagazine.org/article/dark-ecology/ by PAUL KINGSNORTH Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Mar 3, 20211 min read

VANITY IS THE ENEMY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

http://thefanzine.com/vanity-is-the-enemy-an-interview-with-ottessa-moshfegh/ by Luke B. Goebel