[W]hile prose tends toward pure ‘interiority,’ coming to life in the reader’s mind, and cinema gravitates toward the ‘exteriority’ of experiential spectacle, perhaps ‘comics,’ in

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There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become

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[F]or the vast majority of students, academic study is nothing more than vocational training. Because ‘academic study has no bearing on life,’ it must be

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All of [Sarah] Silverman’s controversies are essentially large-scale pieces of PC performance art—but instead of settling anything about race and humor in America, they just

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Many commentators measure political theater only by its effectiveness in the ‘real world.’… I try to resist such stark binaries between performance and reality, and

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We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful) (via fuckyeahtheorists)

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