The Simulated Devil’s Playground
“Camouflaging liminality as an escape route from marginality in today’s America has the sole purpose of reconciling the interests of billionaires with those of the marginalized sector of its population.”
Category: Notes From Disgraceland
We Need To Learn To Speak Again
“Why does it appear impossible to dispute obvious lies and falsehoods with simple and self-evident truths?”
The Genesis Of Governmentality And The Great Flood Of Arbitrariness
“At the end, it is down to a binary choice between two alternatives, neither one of which would have been found acceptable if they had been subjected to free (and/or intelligent) choice.”
It Is The Eleventh Hour For White American Males
“A collateral damage of capitalism’s global triumph, beaten in just about any game that matters, even the ones they invented, they are joining the ranks of excess population facing a threat of irreversible social displacement and marginalization.”
A Decade Of Counterfactual Reality Or How To Quiet A Vampire Of History (15 September 2008, Ten Years Later)
“$7 trillion was the price that had to be paid for suspending the crushing force of gravity that would have otherwise caused the collapse of the entire capitalist system.”
Erectile Alchemy And Bubble Addiction
“However, despite their repeated failures, we still seem to be unable to shake off our bubble addiction.”
Complexity Curse: From Low Productivity To Social Fragmentation
“Politics has become a problem instead of a solution.”
The Age Of Unreason
“Rationality is a wonderful thing. However”…
Populism As Space Travel
“The history of populism is a repository of failed missions — a true destination of the populist journey is really a problem of imagination.”
Scandal And Power: Pornographication Of Politics And Social Life
“The ongoing parody of self-destruction comes with an embedded option on resurrection (political and/or commercial) or an implicit promise of a lucrative “afterlife” with “70 virgins” in the form of book deals, high-commission speech opportunities, TV appearances, Fox News correspondent, or consultant positions.”
Digital Panopticon And The Triumph Of The Unfree Will
“Smartphones have become a tool for governing — they enable one to shape opinions, diffuse dissent, streamline emotions, manufacture consensus, assassinate opponents, stage revolutions, and declare wars and victories, imaginary and real, all alike.”
The Poverty Of Tech And The Tech Of Poverty
It was one of those rainy and damp days, I was finding my way out of the F-train subway on Bergen St. in Brooklyn. On the mezzanine level, in the corner of the stairwell, I noticed a young man, couldn’t have been much older than 30….
American Corrida And The Reconstitution Of The State
“We have reached the point of self-intoxication when inner contradictions of the system, which previously could be temporarily ignored, are taking over. The system has exhausted itself – it has collapsed under its own weight.”
Perfect Crimes & Misdemeanors: The Politics Of Inflated Balloons
“When one puts an inflated balloon in a presidential seat”…