Month: September 2019

  • The barbarians are within the walls

    Naomi Klein on “climate barbarism” (and more) at LARB: We live in societies, whether they admit it or not, that do rank human life based on race and religion. And climate change forces us to reckon with that, and ask, are we going to live up to the rhetoric of equality and the idea that…

  • Disconnected

    I fucking hate autumn. I hate winter worse, mind you — but I’ll save my bitching about winter for when winter arrives. Meanwhile, autumn is at the door right now, tapping away at the glass with its miserable raindrop fingers, the fucker. In its hands, a message: telling me I can look forward to another…

  • The future is not a static thing

    Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living. She did not just believe that a society free of consumerism and incarceration, like Shevek’s homeworld, could exist; she explored how that society could…

  • Dandy in Hamburg

  • Wenn in Köln…