April 2013
4 posts
For Fred
I wish I lived at _______ it has everything except what I love. Why are there so many stalls in the _______ bathroom? How do you lose your child in _______? After peeing in a bottle I decided to stroll through _______ without shoes. I’m lost in _______. Fuck. Love hate relationship with _______. Let’s all meet up at _______. This white lady in _______ was like “this place is like a...
For Popeye
If a girl takes you to ____________ on a first date, she doesn’t like you all that much. FYI. I’ve never been to ____________. Take me to ____________ so I know it’s real. I think I want to finally go to ____________. Going to ____________ for the first time. ____________ better not disappoint me. My first time having ____________ and it was soooo good. Had ____________ for the...
For George
Would do anything for _________ right now. I left my friend’s 11 year old cousin in the _________ bathroom. I was halfway home when I realized. _________ why did they tear you down? I luv you, baby come back, you can blame it all on me. Need a _________ in my life. Im having _________ tonight this is a very unhealthy weekend mums fault. If anyone needs a job apply to the _________ by school! My...
For Cyril
Some lady just burped so loud at _________, and tried to play it off like it wasn’t her. I wonder where the _________ I got her went? So grateful that my #dancefestival budget allows us to stop at _________ after this morning’s debacle at home. At _________, cause im white. The closest _________ for me is in the neighboring country. I hope Monica gets here with _________ that’ll...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
12 posts
The History of Dialogue: Other People's Papers
thenewinquiry:
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This is a dialogue between Teach, an adjunct philosophy instructor at a public university in New York, and Cheat, who has authored over 100 papers for pay.
Teach: In my philosophy class of 36 students I had six instances of plagiarism. I ended up turning them all in to the Committee on Academic Standing.
Cheat: Do you remember how they plagiarized?
T: One is a case of...
Shareable: Share or Die →
This is an ebook collection I’ve been putting together for the last six months or so, and it’s finally ready. Click through for the purchase/download version and/or the free online version.
The New Inquiry: School's Out Forever →
thenewinquiry:
“Pledge of Allegiance” — a sketch from The Whitest Kids U’ Know
A review of John Marsh’s Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality
By Malcolm Harris
At the core of contemporary liberal ideology is the idea that education, done right, could solve all…
May 2011
13 posts
What's The Matter with Jonathan Franzen
“When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world and its problems are impossibly daunting. But when you go out and put yourself in real relation to real people, or even just real animals, there’s a very real danger that you might love some of them.
And who knows what might happen to you then?”
- Jonathan Franzen “Liking...
The New Inquiry: The Post-Colonial Space Opera →
thenewinquiry:
A Review of China Míeville’s Embassytown
By W. Andrew Shephard
Over the course of a career which has produced eight novels, a collection of short fiction and, a non-fiction book on Marxist theory, China Míeville has amassed a considerable following for his distinct brand of…
The New Inquiry: It Gets Worse →
thenewinquiry:
By Malcolm Harris
The dissonance between the two poles, between puppy and wolf, altar boy and Rosemary’s baby, is the heart of Odd Future’s sound
Since Roland Barthes published his landmark 1967 essay “The Death of The Author,” critics have been loathe to drag writers themselves…
Fear of A Doomed Planet « The Saturn Society →
This graph from The New York Times shows American pessimism at a recorded high, but what exactly are we afraid of? For the first time in the history of this poll questions, the majority thinks living conditions in this country are getting worse, but what’s surprising here to me is the “first” part. If September 11 shattered the “end of history” hypothesis in which the major conflicts between...
The New Inquiry: Who's Afraid of The Big Bad... →
thenewinquiry:
Saoirse Ronan in Hanna (above) and Emily Browning in Sucker Punch (below)
A review of Hanna and Sucker Punch
By Malcolm Harris
“The Young-Girl doesn’t look like a dead body, as one might presume from reading women’s magazines; she looks like death itself.” Tiqqun, Raw Materials…
April 2011
26 posts
Bad Education
thenewinquiry:
TNI Managing Editor Malcolm Harris on the student loan bubble in n+1.
You can read more by following his new project, The Saturn Society.
The New Inquiry: Portrait of the Artist as a Left... →
thenewinquiry:
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We don’t expect great artists to be great people. Why do we expect it of athletes?
By Malcolm Harris
If sports have value, it is as art. They are a platform on which athletes and teams stretch themselves to species capacity for the ephemeral brilliance of a perfect swing,…
