Mark Dery

Gorilla warfare. #CULTUREJAMMING lives.

Opinion: Why the Middlebrow Corporate Media Commentariat Is The Kudzu Of The Mind And Should Be Eradicated And Replaced By Young, Radical Voices Unwilling to Drop And Blow Oligarchs.

Who said irony is dead?

The Decline of Western Civilization. What's next? A tuxedo sweatsuit that pairs well with Uggs? A mankini suitable for open-casket viewing? A Depend Undergarment for the Mind?

Hey, whatever happened to Venezuela? How's that hope-y, regime-change-y thing working out?

Courtesy "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" (FB), by way of @feralclass on Insta.

Another burnt offering to the Blind Idiot God of Irony. Feb 16: Epstein bombshell alleging DoJ is covering up victim's allegation that Trump sexually abused and hit her as a teen. Feb 28: 148 schoolchildren bombed to death in Iran and the Middle East a firestorm of horror (with help from MBS, Bibi)

The trouble with clerics is their altar egos.

("Our colleague Benjamin Péret in the act of insulting a priest." From La Révolution surréaliste, No. 8, December 1926.)

Thanks for the shout-out. A hat-tip from a physicist elicits the giddy exuberance of shooting the tube of a supermassive black hole. (Not that I'd be there to experience it.)

A suitably lugubrious Happy Birthday to Edward Gorey (1922-2000)--unchallenged master of Disquieting Nonsense, the Ironic Gothic, Existentialist Dada--on what would have been his 101st. Never forget the Importance of Being Edwardian; *he* never did.

#edwardgorey #gorey #borntobeposthumous #markdery

What fresh Zionist Hell is this?! As a devotee of horror *as* philosophy & philosophy *as* horror (©Eugene Thacker), I tell myself horror stories in order to live. Which is why I avoid brain-dead franchises like _WWZ_. So maybe context is a corrective but this looks like straight-up IDF propaganda.

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

"It is a sign of a fatally limited imagination to assume that we can only ever desire the pittance to which we are currently reconciled." www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

The answer to the first two questions below is yes if certain conditions are met: Putting reviews in front of online readers; not expecting/caring that every review do equally "well," traffic-wise; and caring about subscribers' desires/behaviors beyond clicks. Etc.

Also, Zionist troll delivers high-flown sermon on journalism in a series endowed by the family of a Jewish journalist murdered by religious zealots who, like Israel's fundamentalist far right, thought their god have them deed and title to the Levant? The irony is pitch-black.

How extravagantly generous of you to say. Huge thanks for that. (Your work looks fascinating. I'm going to have to play catch-up.)

One of my most favorite books of the World Wide Web (i.e., 1990s internet) is Escape Velocity. Dery and @sturkle.bsky.social keenly shaped my understanding of the online social interaction and the forces behind it.

We were warned.

Will you be here all week?

Xenomorphs don't have consciences, comrade Howard. Ash: You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism.
Lambert: You admire it.
Ash: I admire its purity. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

#CULTUREJAMMING lives!

Pinker should be banished to Pariah Island--with a lifetime supply of hair-care products.

Please tell me this is THE ONION.

I took a stout stick to the libertarian tech broligarchy in ESCAPE VELOCITY (1996) and again in THE PYROTECHNIC INSANITARIUM (1999). Their preening self-regard (Exhibit A: Stewart Brand's advertorial THE MEDIA LAB) and Bohemian Grove elitism gave off the telltale stench of corruption even then.

I took a stout stick to the libertarian tech broligarchy in ESCAPE VELOCITY (1996) and again in THE PYROTECHNIC INSANITARIUM (1999). Their preening self-regard (Exhibit A: Stewart Brand's advertorial THE MEDIA LAB) and Bohemian Grove elitism gave off the telltale stench of corruption even then.

Tart truth, with a side serving of cold fury. I second that emotion. (Full disclaimer: @johnwilliams.bsky.social was my editor at BookWorld. A dab hand at last-minute line edits, unfailingly professional, he's that rarest of things in this business: a mensch who respected his writers.)

Thus it begins. First they came for the shoe-leather reporters, then they came for the feature writers, next the critics and the commentariat, then the nonfiction authors, and finally the novelists and the poets. Après nous, le déluge of AI slop.

University of North Texas Shutters Exhibition of Artworks Critical of ICE Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez, a Mexican-American artist whose work centers immigrant experiences, said the school closed his show without notice.

Texans, rise up. hyperallergic.com/university-o... #ICE #FASCISM #FREESPEECH #1A

Keep pushing Norm.

ICE Out!
Maybe they'll get the message in German.

#AbolishICE #minnesota #fascism #antifascist