Interview I did with Sylvère Lotringer in March 2009 in the Dean's office, Eugene Lang College, The New School. Photo of Sylv``ere by McKenzie Wark

A day before Alex Pretti’s brutal killing by federal agents in the Minneapolis steets, Minnesota showed us a way forward: the general strike.

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

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The annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention ended this past weekend. I was not there. Last year I attended the convention in Philadelphia, but a few months after it, I decided to let my ML...

How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

For Earl Jackson Jr. who introduced me to Samuel R. Delany's brilliance. Willfully Confusing Sex and Revolution Early in my professional career, when I had just moved back from California to take a jo...

“I’m promiscuously autobiographical.” – Samuel R. Delany((Quoted in Julian Lucas, “Galaxy Brain,” The New Yorker (10 and 17 July 2023), 34.)) “Improvisation, in whatever possible excess of representat...

Author’s note #1: On the cover of Samuel R. Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos is a drawing of a winged Minotaur: head and tail of a bull, beclawed hands and foot, muscular human torso. Kneeling, ...

Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Berlant’s and Michael Warner’s essay “Sex in Public” traced how the privatization of sex devastated public sex cultures in New York City at the turn of the millennium. Th...

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...