Detrimental Delineations of the Digital Dream Machine

“Without a doubt our epoch prefers the image to the thing, the copy to the original, the representation to the reality, appearance to being. What is sacred to it is only illusion. More than that, the sacred grows in its eyes to the extent that truth diminishes and illusion increases, to such an […]

The Supervillain as Ubertheorist

“Like modern society itself, the spectacle is at once united and divided. In both, unity is grounded in a split. As it emerges in the spectacle, however, this contradiction is itself contradicted by virtue of a reversal of its meaning: division is presented as unity, and unity as division.” — Thesis 54, The Society of […]

LOLE.coli

Hip Shit

Walk a mile in Diane von Furstenberg’s shoes. No, really. Try them on for size.

Wal-Mart is the new “Big Apple”

Living in Portland for a while now, I’d almost forgotten about that mega-store, Wal-Mart.
Update on Wally World’s status:
According to Good Magazine Wal-Mart’s total store acreage is now greater than that of all of Manhattan, which is about 15,000 acres. Wal-Mart covers a total of 18,810 acres.
My first thought goes to the giant Costco city […]

Chirony

das hammer

soon an entire generation of old men will speak this way.

for the rational individual

new qotsa is out.