Atemporality and Marx’s World-History
By Adam Rothstein
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Oct.1st, 2009
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“No matter whose books we’ve read, we’re the children of capital; the love of speed is ingrained in us.”
- N+1
Certain things are [...]
Letters to the Past
By Adam Rothstein
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Oct.1st, 2009
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Dear 1959 (or thereabouts),
Somewhere across the limited expanse of your body, the poet Jack Spicer was mailing and receiving letters with James [...]
The Sci-Fi Speculum
By Adam Rothstein
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July 15, 2009
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Today I had a vision—in it, Sci-Fi was dead.
Alright, so I’m feeling a strange essay coming on. It’s still a little hot [...]
Just in Time for Cyber-Time
By Adam Rothstein
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May 1st, 2009
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Just in Time for Cyber-Time
Neo: “Are you saying I can dodge bullets?”
Morpheus: “I’m saying that when the time comes, you [...]
Nearing the Machines
By Adam Rothstein
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May 1st, 2009
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When I was in New York I went to see Merce Cunningham’s Nearly Ninety performance at BAM, on his 90th birthday. Actually, [...]
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By Adam Rothstein
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February 20th, 2009
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A man named Adrian Bowyer is building a machine, which is building a machine, which is building a machine…
It could [...]
By Adam Rothstein
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January 17th, 2009
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I sit.
I write.
I open a window, and through it, I edit my blog.
I read another’s blog.
I write a bit more.
I send an email.
Remembering a [...]
By Adam Rothstein
Published in The Brutalitarian, by Brute Press
November 9th, 2008
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Intellectuals today are at an impasse. It’s actually not as epochal as it sounds. By intellectuals, I mean anybody who uses their brain, and by impasse, [...]