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TM

Sometimes, I still smell you on street corners. When the wet lust of the sun lays a lung on us. One long breath between the piss and the matrimony of skin and brick. Shape-shifter, you follow like a spirit dog. You swallowed me. Easy on the gut. I was. Too weak to speak on god. […]

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Astronaut Austin

Astronaut Austin was in over his head. He didn’t quite know it at the time, as his ethereal and cosmological voyage was just beginning, but to see this fresh-faced, possibly-pretentious young man consciously enter a reality where it would unknowingly but unapologetically question any and all realities, it was frankly heartbreaking and even a bit […]

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Philosophy Political Economy

Everybody Deserves Gentrification

Housing isn’t any kind of crisis right now, it’s wealth disparity Your house, your tent in the city, your apartment in the sky, your manor and estate on the hill, your cottage and farm in the country — or whatever place you call home — is treated like a commodity, a raw material for the new digital […]

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Vertighost

Wore it like a witch tracing fingertips along a silver belly. Snake River. Shivered twice as onyx trailed behind, once for me, once for mine. Pagan whispers bade, inch closer, further the ermine. Drips of a soul folded into the jagged excrement of that bluff. That blind chasm. Widows peak, it seemed, sublime. Drunk on […]

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Philosophy Political Economy

On Being in Economics

Featured Image by Jax Ko A Philosophical Foundation for the Critique of Capitalism Everything in the world that is bought and sold using currency can be defined by its market in the economy. Every aspect of life is commodified for the marketplace, from drinking water to wiping our ass. How we sleep, what we eat, […]