2010 :: Issue 6/Spring :: Micro Essays
The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America
(P–R)
Carlos Reyes
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Agon… Ekstasis… Making strange again (To Bakhtin, my brother) Becoming is becoming because becauseless (To Deleuze, my double) A passion for unknowing (To the Buddha, nobody’s nobody) |
The Mark of X In the beginningless after God killed himself On the streets, in the sheets This one only belongs with those who don’t belong (R={x:x∉x}→ R∈R↔R∉R) |
Somebody Wins, Somebody Loses Your money or your time The rich get Losing is for losers |
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| Patience | Not a virtue anymore. | ||||
| Philippines | America is not an empire. | ||||
| Play | Hard. | ||||
| Police | Kings of pain. | ||||
| Politics | This one seduces interns. That one is a Terminator. This one is a homosexual who hates fags. That one talks to Jesus. | ||||
| Politics | The business of manipulating ignorance. (How to keep all eyes on the trivial while the machinery of power grinds its gears elsewhere.) | ||||
| Pollyanna | The extraordinary kindness and cruelty of those who want so badly to be good. | ||||
| President | In search of a father. | ||||
| Privacy |
1. Reality shows. 2. Facebook. |
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| Privacy | So last millennium. | ||||
| Progress | Mene, Mene, Tele, Visio. | ||||
| Promised Land | Home of the rave, land of free trade. | ||||
| Prozac | In 1987, sadness became a disease. | ||||
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Portmantoes PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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Queer (See Illegal Alien.) |
Scapegoat politics. | ||||
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Queery QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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| Recognition Scene | Been there, bought that. | ||||
| Religion | Believe it… or else… | ||||
| Repetition | As long as it looks different. | ||||
| Repetition | Truth factory. (The one-strategy-fits-all of advertising, politics, mass media, etc.) | ||||
| Retirement | Perpetual deferment. | ||||
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Rhinoplasty (See Halitosis.) |
A genius for neologism. | ||||
| Rock‘n Roll | Desire both hero and villain in the great American epic. | ||||
| Rock‘n Roll | Made in Africa. | ||||
| Rugged Individualism | Buying conformist nonconformity. (A nation of shoppers who just want to belong.) | ||||
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Remarscramble RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA TRANSTECHNOSTALGIA UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE UNIÜBERVERSUBTLE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE VERSAVERDAVERGENCE WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER WÖNDERWHORLDWEAVER XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA XSTATIKXCENTRIKXTRAVAGANZA YINYANGYES YINYANGYES Ø |
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