Not All Art is Beautiful (and That’s Good)

Hans Holbein’s portrait The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (from 1521, now in the Basel Kunstmuseum) is, Continue reading →

Our Desert Islands: Deleuze, Sloterdijk, and the Pandemic

An older version of this article was originally published at 3:AM Magazine. You can find the original here. “Islands are Continue reading →

Thief versus Lover: The Banality in Jean Genet’s Significance

A new tome of Jean Genet’s novels and poetry came out in 2021. Historically, most have had two versions: a Continue reading →

Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation

Proxies are a necessary method of creating efficiencies in the complex social and technical processes characteristic of modern life. A Continue reading →

From Cyberpunk to Solarpunk: Technics and the Cities of the Future

Recently, I came across a paper by the great historian, and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford, titled ‘Authoritarian and Democratic Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence

The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, Continue reading →

Georges Bataille and the Continuity of Life

What is life? To the historian, writer, and occultist George Bataille, life is a ‘door into existence’ revealing to us Continue reading →

Trash Theory: The “Young-Girl” Deployment

Premiers Matériaux pour une Théorie de la Jeune-Fille I just found this weird little book. It’s been referenced here and Continue reading →