Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
Ben LernerShaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.
Ben LernerI’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
Ben LernerI'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.
Ben Lerner