He/Him - Anarcho-Promethean - Alien with a chicken
“Pointillist time is broken up, or even pulverized, into a multitude of ‘eternal instants’ – events, incidents, accidents, adventures, episodes – self-enclosed monads, separate morsels, each morsel reduced to a point ever more closely approximating its geometric ideal of non-dimensionality.” - Zygmunt Bauman (Consuming Life) .1 The history of time can be
“Democracy can be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on who will become dinner. It can also be, through a grueling process of rotating consensus-building, become one wolf voting with the sheep against the other wolf over who will become dinner, or the sheep, worn down by constant
One of the most successful noosurgical instruments of early internet culture, the Political Compass was created in 2001 by New Zealand journalist and amateur noosurgeon Wayne Brittenden. It draws from the work of Wilhelm Reich, Hans Eysenck, and Theodor Adorno, according to the website’s own description. Because, of course,
The recent killing of Renee Good by ICE has catalyzed renewed protest activity and intensified public debate over the use of extreme force in the policing and deportation of immigrant communities. ICE interventions increasingly arrive as fully militarized incursions, prepared to transform the city blocks in which they operate into
Long before Nazism became the definitive symbol of antisemitism, despotism, and xenophobia, an earlier generation of far-right ideologues was already constructing conspiracy theories and promoting the expulsion and extermination of minority populations. Today, with the rise of democratic right-wing populism and the normalization of illiberal conservative ideas, an odd ripple
01: Digital Futures Sometime in the near future, data centers will be established in the United States and China to house the many digital nations that were once island nations from around the world. These nations, lost to the rising waters of climate catastrophe, are targeted by digital nationalists and
Recently, Trump’s DOJ has reported that the Epstein client list doesn’t exist despite the Trump administration's earlier promise to release it. Well, kind of. Trump was actually apprehensive about releasing files on Epstein in an interview a while back. But the news is, Trump is a
“The effect of the grid was always to be able to say of anything that it was this, not that; it belonged here, not there. It was bounded, determinate, and therefore — in principle — countable.” - Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) People can seek refuge from the skies of oblivion for a