Zadie Smith
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51. We, I and Them
As I write, England are playing Panama and making hard work of it. Coincidentally, I am on the home stretch of Zadie Smith’s Dead and Alive, in which the Essay, The Realm of the Unspoken engages with being a supporter of the England Men’s National Team at a previous World Cup within the context of… Continue reading
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50. We, the Product…
… [T]he forces of capital have always despised the commons, precisely because you can’t monetize it, and that their signature move has always been to denigrate whatever is shared and free (in this case, reality itself, time itself, which was designated as impossibly, unliveably boring, around 2008). In its place they offer instead something costly,… Continue reading
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45. Weird Assistants
Picking up Zadie Smith after a long time away has me all in my feels about how much I have missed her excellent way with words. On my current reading docket is her essay collection: Dead and Alive. One of the essays in the collection is The Instrumentalist: On Tar from which an exchange (which… Continue reading