October 28, 2023
The Bringers of Violence
Again, Fanon’s words come to mind: “The town belonging to the colonized people . . . the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor how.”
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April 2, 2025
On Which Side of the Screen Lies the Ghost?
Gaza is the ghost of the world, the persistent presence that, despite all efforts to erase it, to make it disappear, remains and resists. It is Gaza that has shown us the impossible: the horrors of settler colonialism at its most extreme and brutal, the ways in which resistance is possible in the smallest of gestures, and finally, the triumphant acts of return and reunification following the now-broken ceasefire agreement. The ghost of the world has shown us the world for what it is and what...
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March 31, 2025
Ink is the Strongest Gunpowder
are you a total fucking idiot
do you know anything about gunpowder
have you heard a hand grenade detonate
have you seen a combat medic amputate eighty legs in one go
do you understand what 75% saltpeter
15% charcoal and 10% sulfur can achieve
March 28, 2025
Review: Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd
Subtlety: something I go back and forth worrying about, an oscillation between “not that deep” or “not worth it” to address, but with the knowledge that it is still cutting, cutting, cutting.
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