Badly Placed to Adapt to Global Warming

...we don't even have (very many) wild variants of crops to help alter them. Because they are considered "weeds." Because of ...

North Pole Lake

Sometimes my job is out of control depressing. Sure things are connected. And it sucks. 

California Stripped for Export

@twitter, you really do need to look at your abuse policy. Like, formulate one, you know? Anyone who wonders what it would be like to live i...

OOO and Quantum Theory

Told you ! Been thinking about this for about three years now. The thing is, I've been reasoning that if tiny things can behave in a qua...

Speculative Tate

Also adieu to the speculative Tate. Reza Negarestani, Robin Mackay and I and others wrote these weird labels for existing paintings by the R...

Jackboot Subtlety

The horseshoe in a boxing glove obviousness of the Tate Britain 2.0 omits the following lineages from its modern and thus less than contempo...

"This is Art: You Will Like It"

This kind of injunction, identical to "Perfectly Ripe Mangoes," is why I don't visit the Tate Modern. But now the Tate Britain...

The Smell Remains the Same

At the Tate Britain, from the 70s, when I first started to dig it. But that's about it. In this and the next couple of posts, some thoug...

No Thugs in Our House

This is for you Zimmerman.

The Disco of the Present Moment (Madrid)

These guys created some musical pieces called Hyperobjects  last year. Now they are making a piece for the National Museum of Contemporary A...