“The plenitude of history is only possible in the space, both empty and peopled at the same time, of all the words without language that appear to anyone who lends an ear, as a dull sound from beneath history, the obstinate murmur of a language talking to itself – without any speaking subject and without [...]

…I’m weary of ideologues. Tonight I pray for a bit of peace and quiet. I need a break from rants and manifestos. I know I’m guilty of delivering them myself, but Jesus Fairy Christ, I need just a few minutes of peace from the loud-mouth post-Left LEFT, the anti-activist ACTIVISTS, and the anti-intellectuals who’ve spent [...]

The Democracy Now reports coming in this morning from Haiti broke my heart. Hearing that people are having their limbs amputated without anesthetics, that surgeons are going to hardware stores to get hacksaws to perform said amputations, that so many are dead and so many are suffering and dying without care horrifies me to no [...]

I’ve been noticing some funny contradictions in our delightfully queer social movements–those of anarchist stripes and those of progressive stripes. What are they you might ask? Well, I’ll tell you–I’m getting mighty grumpy with the eternal return of fetishizing tactics over strategy. I don’t give a damn what the tactics are–letter writing, sign holding, window [...]