May 2012
4 posts
“TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE SO-CALLED RODNEY KING RIOT, we can do little more than commemorate the deliberate reign of ignorance that has deflected every attempt to understand the deep causes of the complex events that unfolded in the last week of April 1992. Everyone, of course, will agree that the acquittal of King’s assailants was the proximate cause or signal for the volcanic social...
April 2012
10 posts
March 2012
4 posts
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Not so! Not fucking so!
There is no safe territory in Cindy Sherman’s work, as much as you can pretend there is by turning some images into oversized wall paper for your blockbuster show. You just have to walk through the final room of the exhibition, seeing Sherman posing as mentally somewhat (if not completely) unhinged high-society (or what we think of as high society) types, and then...
February 2012
17 posts
“I am over rape.
I am over rape culture, rape mentality, rape pages on Facebook.
I am over the thousands of people who signed those pages with their real names without shame.
I am over people demanding their right to rape pages, and calling it freedom of speech or justifying it as a joke.
I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over being told I don’t have a sense...
January 2012
8 posts
What I’m running away from is writing. But it’s more than that. I’m running away from the public, from politics, from people. Perhaps I’m even running away from the woman who saved my life. Above all, I’m probably running away from myself.
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I have simply believed that what is once done can never be undone and that, in fact, everything remains forever. In short, Being has a memory. And thus,...
December 2011
7 posts
[…] Western governments, he said, are organized on a flawed premise not far removed from the Soviet system that had just collapsed. “The modern era has been dominated by the culminating belief,” he said, “that the world … is a wholly knowable system governed by finite number of universal laws that man can grasp and rationally direct … objectively describing,...
