Gloria Stoll Karn, 95 year old artist and pulp fiction illustrator
A Prolific Female Artist in the Male-Dominated Pages of Pulp MagazinesContinue Reading
Politically Correcting
So here’s an audio hour with JP and Fry exchanging with Michelle Goldberg and Michael Eric Dyson.Continue Reading
Conceal Your Intentions
A best selling self help book is Robert Greene’s, The 48 Laws of Power, published by Penguin (Business) in 2000. I found it a very complimentary addition to JP’s latest offering, 12 Rules for Life. The first paragraph in Greene’s book eerily describes something of JP himself. ‘The feeling of havingContinue Reading
The Lobster’s Self-Help Advice -Chapter 1
“Look for your inspiration to the victorious lobster, with its 350 million years of practical wisdom. Stand up straight, with your shoulders back.”Continue Reading
12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Choas. Rule 1. (first chapter) first sentence: If you are like most people, you don’t often think about lobster–unless you’re eating one.
Reading JP’s first sentence triggered a memory and visual association concerning something I had read some time ago about Jean Paul Sartre and a drug adventure gone bad which was documented by his partner Simone De Beauvoir. De Beauvoir in her autobiography, The Prime Life, mentions a lobster incident. AfterContinue Reading
A Cryptoeconomy of Affect
Can the Blockchain finally solve the talent problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions? Erin Manning and Brian Massumi reconsider value in financial terms.Continue Reading
Artist Carolina Falkholt’s Controversial Public Murals
Carolina Falkholt on public murals.Continue Reading
On Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality and Neoliberalism
We may be living the end of politics. For if it is true that politics is a field that has been opened by the existence of the revolution, and if the question of revolution can no longer be posed in these terms, then politics may disappear.— Michel Foucault, 1977 LA Review ofContinue Reading
On Defining the Cosmology of Platform Capitalism
We have now another generation of companies without offices, office workers and physical products. ‘The platform has gone from an operating and gaming system to a global economic factor, from a metaphor to the mechanism of cultural production.’ LA Review: “Delete Your Account: on the Theory of Platform Capitalism“Continue Reading