sea mines, eh
10.03.2026 20:32
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sea mines, eh
I wrote about the brilliant performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his current retrospective at Dia Beacon for @booksandthearts.bsky.social. This was some of the hardest thinking I've done in a while—Hsieh's work is so challenging, in the best way!
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
what is this horseshit
Babylon.
also!
It's giving Procrustes
Interviewer presses Bolton on the school hit and he runs through the classic sequence
- we have no evidence
- the US or Israel would never do that
- it was in an IRCG compound anyway
- well if they did they'll surely make amends for it
- well Hamas killed Israeli civilians
John Bolton on Al-Jazeera, showing that his animus against Trump won't outweigh his appetite for war crimes
Photo of a narrow street blocked by a huge wall of stacked oil barrels
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, "Wall of Oil Barrels—The Iron Curtain" (1961–62), an installation of stacked oil barrels that completely blocked the historic rue Visconti, one of the narrowest streets in Paris, and slowed traffic through the city's Left Bank
so great
"His stage name wryly reflected the fact that Stalin was sometimes referred to as 'Country Joe' because of his rural background. The word 'Fish' was taken from Mao Zedong, who wrote that revolutionaries 'must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.'"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
Rocky Myers, a Black man from Decatur, Alabama, is still locked up for a crime he didn’t commit. His lawyer, former corporate counsel for the United Klans of America, told me if he had to do it all over again, he’d seat an all-white jury this time. Please take a moment with this story.
"Say this for the ancien régime, it knows how to have lunch."
An instant classic Lunch with the FT
www.ft.com/content/ab4d...
Homiletics !
Endless night of the living dead
SOMEWHAT AGREE
19th-century textile mill working conditions join the list of anti-American topics that must not be brought up
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/o...
"Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing,"
@polgreen.bsky.social remembers Aimé Césaire's words: “The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
smh
Oh hey it's @arunadsouza.bsky.social on the Whitney Biennial
hyperallergic.com/the-polycris...
The grotesque.
