‘But! Let me just say this …’
The sublime failure of Snipes’s performance is, for me, a triumphant evocation of what Poetry is, or wants to be. An exceptionally blunt object, a constant attempt to push toward something new.
Progressive culture since 1954
Hard lessons for Australia from the Drop Kiwi Farms campaign
To say that Australian officials were complacent in keeping Kiwi Farms operational for as long as it was would be an understatement. Australia was directly responsible for its continued existence as well as the harm it caused.
What’s in a flame? Giorgia Meloni’s Italy
Instead of asking if Giorgia Meloni is a fascist, then, as everyone seems to be frantically doing, we may ask what kind of non-fascist would run under a symbol that was crafted in order to avoid falling afoul of anti-fascist laws, or adopt one of Mussolini’s most famous slogans—‘For God, country and family’—as the tagline of her election campaign.
We are all posthuman: Citizen Sleeper and growing strange in late-stage capitalism
Citizen Sleeper follows Deleuze and Guattari’s thought, whereby to resist one must move toward the plane of immanence and the multiplicity of capacities it offers. If we are all sleepers, then we must learn how to make new collectives, multiplicities and fleshly and virtual becomings. As my favourite ‘ending’ of the game tells us, we must turn away from identity, representation and ideology and ‘grow strange’ against the boundaries of capitalism.
Act your wage
Sam Wallman has some suggestions for how workers should behave on the job.