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read me and weep

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The Muse

When 74-year-old Robert Tilley agreed to take photographer Ting Ting Chen on a road trip across Newfoundland, neither could have predicted t

Remarkably wholesome

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"... I wanted my writing to become like flogging. And make people's hearts full of pain. I want my pen to transfer our pain and our life. I want--as much as seeing the brutality of war burn my heart--to burn others' hearts with my writing. And that way, they will maybe stop feeling sorry for us."

- Medya

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Reviews of new publications.

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And their eyes change As they learn to see through flames And their necks crane As they pray for rain

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Zoomers Versus the National Security State

Finding the Guantánamo that lives online.

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The perfect moment

Chris Randle in conversation with Isaac Butler.

The thing that kept surprising me, actually, when I went back to this, was all of this front-page news, and a revolution in terms of the position of the religious right in our society, and a real sea change in how we think about the role of art and what art is for, how the government and art should relate to each other, was all over tiny amounts of money, tiny. 

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"Fascism is a political practice appropriate to the mass politics of the twentieth century. Moreover, it bears a different relationship to thought than do the nineteenth-century “isms.” Unlike them, fascism does not rest on formal philosophical positions with claims to universal validity. There was no 'Fascist Manifesto,' no founding fascist thinker. Although one can deduce from fascist language implicit Social Darwinist assumptions about human nature, the need for community and authority in human society, and the destiny of nations in history, fascism does not base its claims to validity on their truth. Fascists despise thought and reason, abandon intellectual positions casually, and cast aside many intellectual fellow-travelers. They subordinate thought and reason not to faith, as did the traditional Right, but to the promptings of the blood and the historic destiny of the group. Their only moral yardstick is the prowess of the race, of the nation, of the community. They claim legitimacy by no universal standard except a Darwinian triumph of the strongest community."

- Robert O. Paxton

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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz

Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

What are these gooners actually doing? Wasting hours each day consuming short-form video content. Chasing intensities of sensation across platforms. Parasocially fixating on microcelebrities who want their money. Broadcasting their love for those microcelebrities in public forums. Conducting bizarre self-experiments because someone on the internet told them to. In general, abjuring connective, other-directed pleasures for the comfort of staring at screens alone. Does any of this sound familiar?

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The film is actually much funnier than the trailer

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Parquette Proves How Nightlife Can Work on Borrowed Time | The Main

The queer nightlife hub knew the building would be demolished. They signed the lease anyway, and built something that will outlast it.

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How Seamstresses Fought the Patriarchy in 1898

Gossip girls, print archaeology, and weavers of memory.

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Contributor Confab: Kawai Shen

"Crises can be moments of acute clarity."

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For those interested who couldn't make it out to the METAMOOD events, stay tuned as we'll be posting some of our readings to Metatron's GLYPHÖRIA series <333

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‘All poor people have is food to get by’

Vijayta Lalwani reports on how the US bombings of Iran and consequent war has created a cooking gas and energy crisis in India.