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Oct 31, 2024
What is agency and where does it come from?
Oct 31, 2024
Oct 31, 2024
The Metaverse Must Be a Pluriverse
Dec 24, 2021
The Metaverse Must Be a Pluriverse
Dec 24, 2021
Dec 24, 2021
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Jan 9, 2021
In the Aftermath of the Storming of the Capitol
Jan 9, 2021
Jan 9, 2021
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Dec 13, 2020
Why I Don't Post Slogans (reflections on declarative politics)
Dec 13, 2020
Dec 13, 2020
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Nov 14, 2020
Prompt for Imagining the Post-Work City
Nov 14, 2020
Nov 14, 2020
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Sep 18, 2020
The Dimensions of Social and Emotional Ecology
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
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Sep 13, 2020
The Personal is Political . . . Right? (Balancing Personal and Planetary Thrival)
Sep 13, 2020
Sep 13, 2020
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Sep 11, 2020
Why Your Love of Nature May be Destroying Nature
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
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Sep 9, 2020
Left Criminological "Ultra-Realism" and Defunding the Police
Sep 9, 2020
Sep 9, 2020
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Jun 14, 2020
Oppression vs. Discrimination: Why You Can Have Racism Without Racists
Jun 14, 2020
Jun 14, 2020
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Jun 11, 2020
The Meaning of Autonomous Zones
Jun 11, 2020
Jun 11, 2020
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Jun 7, 2020
Why Is Academic Language So Inaccessible?
Jun 7, 2020
Jun 7, 2020
Covidiots and Looters (or, nostalgia for "good citizens")
May 31, 2020
Covidiots and Looters (or, nostalgia for "good citizens")
May 31, 2020
May 31, 2020
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May 13, 2020
Consent and Beyond
May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020
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Apr 27, 2020
What Is Radical Professionalism, and Can It Help Us Build Post-capitalism?
Apr 27, 2020
Apr 27, 2020
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Mar 19, 2020
The Meaning of DISTROID
Mar 19, 2020
Mar 19, 2020
Feb 13, 2020
Are Shitty Men Really the Problem?
Feb 13, 2020
Feb 13, 2020
Nov 25, 2019
"No Scrubs": Deconstructing the WWI "Slacker," Sexual Manipulation and Gendered Power
Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Social Media and Post-Authenticity
Sep 4, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
May 7, 2019
Becoming-Feminist: Consciousness-Raising and Social Ecology
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019
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Mar 20, 2019
Assertive Modesty
Mar 20, 2019
Mar 20, 2019
Jul 3, 2018
Situated Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of End Times
Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018
Apr 12, 2018
Notes on Oppression
Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018
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Feb 9, 2018
Post-Industrious Society: Imagining the cities of a post-work world
Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018
Feb 1, 2018
The (classed) Political Economy of Data
Feb 1, 2018
Feb 1, 2018
Jan 13, 2018
Business against Capitalism: production that undermines reproduction
Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018
Jun 22, 2017
Reflections on (uncritical) Aristocratic Hedonism
Jun 22, 2017
Jun 22, 2017
Mar 4, 2017
Queer(ing) Space
Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017
Dec 21, 2016
Professional Interests: how professionalism came to dominate common sense
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 6, 2015
Towards a New Sharing Economy
Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015

Hacking Las Vegas

June 22, 2015

As an urban hacker, Vegas is a nice place to hang out. You can find a constellation of fragments of space that are not immediately productive, and which lend themselves to other modes of being. The Situationists felt that the resort town was a potential site of inspiration for what an alternative future might feel like (though they were not counting on these places to actually be the future of urban space). With so much space dedicated to leisure, these commodified paradises would begin to resemble the veritable playground of a city that thinkers like Constant Nieuwenhuys imagined humanity could inhabit if they succeeded in propagating their desires beyond the limits of society's constraining organization of production. This was precisely the point of experiencing places like resorts and the lust-ridden red-light districts of older cities: these places threatened to push desires past the point that could be provided for by a capitalist productive apparatus. The urban drifter, if s/he was meticulous about experiencing the city contrary to its intended and designed flows and order, might be able to experience the pleasures of urban life in a way that would disintegrate these from the integrated spectacle that would use these controlled and contextualized desires to fuel capitalist circulation. Las Vegas is a great place to experiment with the disintegration of desires. Since the city hosts many features designed to give you a taste of pleasure or desire, in order to induce you to spend money in the casinos and shops, it is a site of many free pleasures. If you're a hacker, you can surf from one fragment to the next, using them contrary to their capitalist-integrated operating instructions. Rather than spending money in the casinos, one can drift from hotel pool to hotel pool, or use headphones drown out the terrible music of the Bellagio fountain with their own auditory symphony, or drift through the perfumed casino floors and the people-mover equipped bridges over the canals of Venice. Las Vegas's urbanism assumes compliance with the desire to play the bigshot, to make it big, to win, to leave rich. A more intelligent visitor will realize that one is already rich in this city of amenities, and experience the city horizontally, on a plateau of desire constructed by big capital.

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Dec 24, 2021
The Metaverse Must Be a Pluriverse
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Dec 24, 2021
Jan 9, 2021
In the Aftermath of the Storming of the Capitol
Jan 9, 2021
Jan 9, 2021
Dec 13, 2020
Why I Don't Post Slogans (reflections on declarative politics)
Dec 13, 2020
Dec 13, 2020
Nov 14, 2020
Prompt for Imagining the Post-Work City
Nov 14, 2020
Nov 14, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
The Dimensions of Social and Emotional Ecology
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 13, 2020
The Personal is Political . . . Right? (Balancing Personal and Planetary Thrival)
Sep 13, 2020
Sep 13, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
Why Your Love of Nature May be Destroying Nature
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 11, 2020
Sep 9, 2020
Left Criminological "Ultra-Realism" and Defunding the Police
Sep 9, 2020
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Jun 14, 2020
Oppression vs. Discrimination: Why You Can Have Racism Without Racists
Jun 14, 2020
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