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After the End
“The whole problem of speaking about the end (particularly about the end of history) is that you have to speak of what lies beyond the end and also, at the same time, of the impossibility of ending.” — Jean Baudrillard
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Breaking News Confirmed: Huge Asteroid Set to Collide with Earth Next Month!
Breaking News Confirmed: Huge Asteroid Set to Collide with Earth Next Month!
A recent headline reads, “‘God of Chaos’ asteroid Apophis could still hit Earth in 2029 — but we won’t know for 3 more years.” For all our…
Massimo Francesco di Alghero
Sep 30
Even Less Fun: Poems
Even Less Fun: Poems
When Narcissus Looks to the Sky
Dee Park
Sep 25
America’s Favorite Sports
America’s Favorite Sports
Basketball Its acceptance of short attention spans, by means of frequent baskets and seesaw running, already presages online scrolling and…
Luna Goličič
Sep 23
A Very Short Review of the DNC
A Very Short Review of the DNC
Everything comes together here: every race, every gender, every class (a literal billionaire speaks side-by-side Bernie Sanders). Even all…
Finneas Telo
Sep 2
Cubist Vignettes on the Birthday
Cubist Vignettes on the Birthday
Contradictory Reflections on Life and Death — Loosely Inspired by Gleizes, Metzinger, Heidegger, Adorno, Baudrillard, and Agamben
Leon Aparov
Aug 26
The Ironies of Optimism and Pessimism
The Ironies of Optimism and Pessimism
I’m much more pessimistic than the average gal. The typical pessimist sees the whole world as “bad.” But this very position opens up a…
Luna Goličič
Aug 7
Reality-Lag
Reality-Lag
A Couple of Notes on the Precession of Simulacra in Theoretical Physics
Arthur Nimzo
Aug 2
Examples of Simulations
Examples of Simulations
An apartment complex’s community garden — managed and maintained by the leasing office because of a “lack of community engagement.”
Massimo Francesco di Alghero
Jul 30
Time Out of Joint: Fragments of Poetry Discovered by an Archaeology of the Future
Time Out of Joint: Fragments of Poetry Discovered by an Archaeology of the Future
Over the course of my studies (concerning the history of what has happened after the disappearance of reality), I happened upon broken…
Claude-Guillaume Mars
Jul 21
Internal Memo on Conduct Moving Forward
Internal Memo on Conduct Moving Forward
On the one hand, a publication about postmodernism can’t enforce an absolute theme for itself. On the other (paradoxical) hand, there are…
Finneas Telo
Jul 18
Phenomenology of the Assassination Attempt on Trump
Phenomenology of the Assassination Attempt on Trump
“…the exceptional form taken by contemporary events: these are both dramatic and insignificant, impatient to occur and indifferent to…
Luna Goličič
Jul 16
The After-Party
The After-Party
I saw you at the masquerade ball early in the evening. Later, everyone was slipped an envelope apprising them of the “Red Room,” the…
Rodriguez Rodriguez
Jul 3
Poems for Baudrillard: Part 2 — Museum
Poems for Baudrillard: Part 2 — Museum
Diogenes’s Lantern
Claude-Guillaume Mars
Jun 26
The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Did Not Take Place: Requiem for the Hudson River
The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks Did Not Take Place: Requiem for the Hudson River
The 9/11 terrorists used the Hudson River to navigate themselves down to New York City.
Leon Aparov
Jun 13
Not Much Fun: Poems
Not Much Fun: Poems
The Impossibility of Sex
Dee Park
Jun 6
From Geometry to Philosophy: The Mathematical Roots of Postmodernism
From Geometry to Philosophy: The Mathematical Roots of Postmodernism
Postmodernism, contrary to the popular imagination, is not merely an ephemeral Stimmung of contemporary society. Neither is it the latest…
Arthur Nimzo
Jun 2
Redshift
Redshift
Absolute truth is the black hole around which our language, theories, and models attempt to orbit at an ever increasing speed and…
Luna Goličič
Jun 1
What Happened and How?: The Disappearance of Humanity
What Happened and How?: The Disappearance of Humanity
AI is now capable of predicting stock market movements with an accuracy greater than a human’s. So one can imagine a financial analyst…
Leon Aparov
May 31
Poems for Baudrillard: Part 1 — Graffiti
Poems for Baudrillard: Part 1 — Graffiti
Leibniz’s Revenge
Claude-Guillaume Mars
May 29
Internal Memo to Comrades Lost in the Struggle Against Everything and Therefore Nothing
Internal Memo to Comrades Lost in the Struggle Against Everything and Therefore Nothing
Finneas Telo
May 28
Preliminary Sketches for a Baudrillardian Hermeneutics of the Mass Shooting
Preliminary Sketches for a Baudrillardian Hermeneutics of the Mass Shooting
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the…
Massimo Francesco di Alghero
May 27
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