Exiting the Vampire Castle
We've been accused variously of trying to "appeal to all of [our] bases" and of not taking a definitive stand on hot button issues because we "have no backbone." Perhaps this may be true...perhaps we are guilty as charged. But perhaps it is also true that the world today is too divided by petty, inconsequential "culture war
... See moreStephen G. Adubato • Cracks in Pomo
After a lifetime of embodying difference, I have no desire to be equal. I want to deconstruct the structural power of a system that marked me out as different. I don’t wish to be assimilated into the status quo. I want to be liberated from all negative assumptions that my characteristics bring. The onus is not on me to change. Instead, it’s the wor
... See moreReni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Capitalists build cities designed for bourgeois identity performance and commerce only to invest in them so heavily that all that can afford to exist are carefully managed environments: postmodern corporate mishmashes of symbols and architectural referents that have no discernible connection to a past, only a technologically mediated amalgam of int
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