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Watching Wall Street burn
By Remi Watts
It was late Saturday night in Black Rock City, Nevada — site of the infamously intense Burning Man festival. As I relished in the comedown of another acid trip, I stood witness to the burning of “Wall Street,” which stood as five massive, full-sized buildings, ironically beautiful representatives of capitalism’s financial vanguard: corporate banks. The… Continue reading Watching Wall Street burn
Age of no consent
By Remi Watts
You have never had consensual sex. The sex you have now is not consensual, nor will you ever have consensual sex so long as you continue to live as you do. Rape, sexual abuse and assault are merely the tip of a sexually violent iceberg. Given the direness of our present circumstances– the inherent barbarism… Continue reading Age of no consent
Curve appeal
By Remi Watts
Females everywhere, rejoice! The cultural arbiters have loosened the shackles and chains, allowing a little more body mass to fit into fashion’s cuffs. Curves and full-figures may finally be welcome in the hallowed halls of fashion, health and beauty. But there are a few conditions: don’t get too curvy, and you damn well better be… Continue reading Curve appeal
Against disingenuous community
By Remi Watts
Constantly in our ears like cheap linguistic currency is the word ‘community,’ as if each of us instinctively understands the merit of its ceaselessly repeated use, as if each of us are still intimate members, comrades, brothers and sisters of one meaningful togetherness or another. It is the intensity, the vibrancy of life, the density… Continue reading Against disingenuous community
The necessity of resistance
By Remi Watts
Our era has been polluted, perhaps to the point of terminal illness, by the mechanisms and apparatuses of an immense behemoth: the hegemonic totality called Empire. Its machinations are global in scale, and the old alliances and divisions no longer matter. It is no longer east versus west or democracy versus Islam or any other… Continue reading The necessity of resistance
Letter: Eschatology? More like scatology
By Ixtapa Soros
Remi Watts manages to put all the 2012-end-of-the-world garbage in a good light in his article [“Of eschatological concern,” Jan. 11, 2012]. While he claims that good can come of the situation regardless of how silly the doomsayers are, one has to wonder if his strategy is likely to do more harm than good. Consider… Continue reading Letter: Eschatology? More like scatology
Of eschatological concern
By Remi Watts
On New Year’s eve, drink in hand– as the clock geared itself towards 2011’s terminal moment– I found myself on the deck of the tallest penthouse in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, peering out on the sprawling beach city down below. Having grown weary from the inane smalltalk around me, I escaped my fellow bourgeoisie party-goers for… Continue reading Of eschatological concern
Of mythic bootstraps
By Remi Watts
You did not get to university, nor got through university, nor achieved the success you have on account of your hard work and determination, and if you think you did then you’ve convinced yourself of one of our society’s most vicious, false and damaging lies. Shame on anyone who convinces himself or herself of the… Continue reading Of mythic bootstraps
“I hate the indifferent . . .”
By Remi Watts
The preeminent cultural critic Antonio Gramsci matter-of-factly pointed out that the most significant hindrance to social betterment is neither corrupt corporate/bourgeois government nor looming fascism. Rather, the most sizeable obstruction keeping society from realizing higher potentials is the menacing force that is indifference. Gramsci states: “I hate the indifferent . . . Indifference and apathy… Continue reading “I hate the indifferent . . .”