Thursday, July 25, 2019
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Friday, July 19, 2019
NERRRRRRD! vol. 85
"In the end?
Nothing ends.
Nothing ever ends"
The pioneer of serious superheroes – who is retiring – has transformed the genre over 40 years of rebellious invention
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 172
In this sense, Instagram’s handling of the Devins photos is exemplary of a wider problem, but Russett says this is a particularly egregious example considering the elements of the case: Devins was an active 4chan user and a so-called “egirl,” or an aspiring influencer who coopted aspects of gaming culture in her Instagram persona, which has prompted many 4chan trolls to viciously mock her and share memes about her death. “There’s so much more violence and abuse around gamer girls than others it seems,” she says. The fact that Instagram’s community guidelines specifically make room for violent content when it’s explicitly intended to “condemn, raise awareness or educate” others about violence has also seemingly created a loophole for trolls to share the images: many captions accompanying the posts make reference to wanting to raise awareness of Devins’ death, in the same breath as joking about it or requesting more followers.
Why Are
Gruesome
Photos of a
Murdered
17-Year-Old Girl
Still All Over
Instagram?
The platform’s handling
of the Bianca Devins case
is arguably reflective
of a wider problem
NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 84
Moore reiterates a lesson he last pushed in Watchmen and Marvelman, that superheroes and fantastical people are a terrible idea. They just cause massive chaos and carnage on the world and the universe. The climaxes of those comics bore this out. LOEG: The Tempest reiterates this idea, but this time as farce and ridiculous comedy. The added nuance Moore adds here is that superheroes and fantastical people belong in stories, not as models for real life. They are unfiltered expressions of the subconscious and release valves for our culture’s craziest impulses, and should stay on the page where the chaos is controlled.
This comic isn’t just Moore and O’Neill’s last hurrah as comics creators, but a love letter and a lost hurrah for the lost, forgotten British comics of decades past. These are the weird, haphazardly created characters from the Fifties and Sixties that Moore and O’Neill read as children. They were silly, bizarre, creaky, even conceptually broken, but they were expressions of a wild, unfiltered creativity by their creators. Every issue begins with an introductory essay paying tribute to a late, lost British comic artist on the verge of becoming forgotten. Moore lauds their eccentric, individual style or consummate skills for their uniqueness unseen in this age of corporate ownership and increasing blandness.
“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest #6”: Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s Bittersweet Comics Swansong
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 171
It is believed in the African country that albino body parts will bring a person wealth or luck, with people willing to pay as much as $3,000 to $4,000 for a limb, or as much as $75,000 for the whole body, the MailOnline reports. As a result, people with albinism are often attacked by people who wish to chop off their limbs, leaving them mutilated, or in many cases, dead.
U.S.A.! U.S.A. ! vol. 192
A Judge Ruled A Neo-Nazi Blogger Should Pay $14 Million To A Woman Targeted In A Racist “Troll Storm"
The judgment against Andrew Anglin included $10 million in punitive damages for what the judge called "particularly egregious and reprehensible" behavior.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Saturday, July 13, 2019
NR_TransgressiveTransmissions: PIECEMEAL by N Casio Poe - coming early August 2019!
so yeah... here’s what’s been in the works since music went tits up.
a collection of short stories, micro-fictions, automatic writings, and other expansions of the universe hinted at in the lyrics of THE COMMUNION and other projects,
thanks to S.C. Burke and NihilismRevised for allowing a dirt-ass from Long Island like me alongside his expanding stable of lethal literati.
more info soon;
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Monday, July 8, 2019
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 168
Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors
Jeffrey Epstein is being held at the federal lockup in Manhattan, according to law enforcement sources.
Friday, July 5, 2019
THE HEAVY HOLE PODCAST: In The Hole w/Nick Cacioppo (The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun)
About this Episode
Will and Tom invite Nick Cacioppo of The Communion, Crisis Actor, and Tunnel Nun to the studio for a truly thought provoking conversation.
Music Featured -
The Communion - Split w/ Bastard Noise
The Communion - Unreleased Tracks
The Communion - Great Violence and Hidden Depths
The Communion - Demos 2004 - 2006
The Communion - Split w/ The Kill
The Communion - A Desired Level of Unease
The Communion - 2010 Sampler
Buttress - Brutus
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk
Deiphago - I, The Devil
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Neglect - Four Years of Hate
Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex
The Communion - Split w/ Bastard Noise
The Communion - Unreleased Tracks
The Communion - Great Violence and Hidden Depths
The Communion - Demos 2004 - 2006
The Communion - Split w/ The Kill
The Communion - A Desired Level of Unease
The Communion - 2010 Sampler
Buttress - Brutus
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk
Deiphago - I, The Devil
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Neglect - Four Years of Hate
Koreisch - This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Negation Aspiration vol. 167
To insulate ourselves from these seemingly guaranteed failures, Millennials, and Gen Z after us, adopted irony as a cultural strategy. Irony allowed us to continue life under late capitalism while psychologically sheltering ourselves from the demoralizing reality. Irony as culture became: “The band I like will inevitably sell out, so I might as well buy-in early.” Irony as politics became: “The movement will inevitably be corrupted, so I might as well side with capital.” Ultimately, it was okay that a project failed because irony allowed us to maintain the plausible deniability that we “never really liked it to begin with.” Why resist, if alternatives are impossible?
In the mid-00s (or when Millennials were the age that Gen Z is now), the mainstream was wearing ironic T-shirts of bands they didn’t like. The enthusiasm may have been insincere but it was paid for in real dollars. This disingenuous mode of consumption was the first breach between the world of ironic aesthetics and social reality. Soon, irony didn’t so much signal active engagement as it suggested an underlying political nihilism, allowing one to disassociate from the real world effects of one’s own actions. The inertia of ironic consumption and production continued to accelerate right up until 2016—at which point the Pepe-style trolls of the Alt-right made it clear that irony had never been apolitical. Ironic propaganda functions the same as real propaganda. Ironic voting is just voting.
IRONY POLITICS & GEN Z
Joshua Citarella
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 190
Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes
The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”
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