We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other.
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Death Is Your Gift: A Midsummer Update
I’ve gone through more life-changing experiences in the course of a few months than most experience in a few years, and I think that’s so true. At the same time, my life is also not that different from the millions of others who operate in an economy that now defines us as the “precariat.”
The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.
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On Graduation
I grew weary of all the anti-intellectualism around education, so prevalent even among some leftists who are calling for an end to academia. Here’s a really short version of a “graduation speech” of sorts.
It’s like hooking up with an ex who is only bound to disappoint.
The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.
Corporate wokeness is now big business, quite literally.
February 14, 2019
Her own adoption looks a lot like human trafficking, even if wrapped in diplomatic immunity and the power that comes naturally to the very wealthy
Excerpt: If “queer” means anything, and if we queers have given anything to the world, it’s a combination of sex and love that stretches the imagination and the concept of friendship.