I make websites and draw cartoons for my kids and my co-workers. I love #indieComics and obsessively collect #guidedByVoices related vinyl. I used to teach Latin in public schools. Still a union worker. #indieRock #webdev #cartoonist #indieweb #fedi22 I’m also on Mastodon and at denmchenry.com.
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What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. …
Like Burroughs, Spinoza shows that, far from being an aberrant condition, addiction is the standard state for human beings, who are habitually enslaved into reactive and repetitive behaviors by frozen images (of themselves and the world). Freedom, Spinoza shows, is something that can be achieved only when we can apprehend the real causes of our actions, when we can set aside the 'sad passions' that intoxicate and entrance us.
Mark Fisher in 2009, writing about a pattern of behavior in late capitalism that sounds exactly like doomscrolling and watching short form video a decade and a half later.
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …
Many have claimed that we are simply seeing the horseshoe theory in action: the idea that the right and the left each bend at their farthest reaches until they almost touch. But that is to confuse the far left—which is where the socialists and revolutionaries reside—with the far-out, which is where the wellness and New Age spiritualists hang out.
— Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated …
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully …
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the …
But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed, Women are depicted in a quite different way from men — not because the feminine is different from the masculine — but because the ‘ideal’ spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him. If you have any doubt that this is so, make the following experiment. Choose from this book an image of a traditional nude. Transform the woman into a man. Either in your mind’s eye or by drawing on the reproduction. Then notice the violence which that transformation does. Not to the image, but to the assumptions of a likely viewer.
— Ways of Seeing by John Berger (Page 64)
I think about this every day, and it's changed the way I see everything.
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose …
Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to …
Spotted in the window at Push/Pull in Seattle. "A gut punch in the style of Le Guin, Atwood, and Butler," reads the blurb on the cover by Kelly Link.
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the …
"[F]ear of the present leads to mystification of the past."
We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem …
