Here lie the limits of assemblage theory; granting agency to the non-human material earth while severing that material’s relations from the humans who have known, shaped it, and lived with it so intimately for generations.
“Notes on the Underground in Gaza”, Hadeel Assali for Society for Cultural Anthropology
Hadeel is involved with Gaza Mutual Aid Solidarity, which does extraordinary work that I hope you will support if you can.
America’s whole situation is a lunatic fringe.
Malcolm X, in an interview from 1964
As seen in the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, playing at Film Forum in NYC all this week. It is an extraordinary documentary featuring remarkable archival material from the families of Andreé Blouin (whose out of print memoir is being reissued next year by Verso) and uh, Nikita Khrushchev?
Played by Peter Gallagher in the gregarious, wise, eyebrow-forward mode of Sandy Cohen in The O.C., Peter comes across as a gift from the heavens.
Review of Left on Tenth by Jackson McHenry for Vulture
The oligarchic order depends for its legitimacy on the flimsy pretense of popular mandate, the ludicrous dumbshow of electoral process, the two parties delivering kayfabe haymakers into infinity like Punch and Judy on the two hands of an unseen puppeteer.
Nick Pinto on the Halloween-themed “I Voted” stickers given out during NYC early voting, for Hell Gate
I love whenever Nick goes full gonzo mode, a lot of the times he has to write very serious stuff and it’s nice when there’s an occasion for him to be a little silly. Also, I voted on Halloween and the sticker is very cute! If there’s one thing I associate with chthonic horrors and the dread of eldritch forces beyond my ken, it’s American electoral politics.
The hunt is on for the scum who stole Britain’s largest inflatable planetarium
Actual headline from The Register
But the beauty and lucidity of your sentences betray you!
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
“A Talk to Teachers”, James Baldwin
Near the end of the highway’s groove in the sill, there opens a broad, forgettable view of the valley of the Hackensack.
Basin and Range, John McPhee