The Sadism of American Waterboarding

“Waterboarding” is a euphemism for a form of torture older than the United States itself. What makes the term “waterboarding” particularly grotesque is its winking reference to the American pastime of surfing. I’m reminded of the moment when Colonel...

Posted by mistersquid on March 9, 2010 8:35 AM

Double Stitch

For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...

Posted by mistersquid on November 13, 2006 12:05 AM

Ghost

A ghost, according to Webster‘s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, is: 1: the seat of life or intelligence: SOUL <give up the ~> 2: a disembodied soul; esp: the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen...

Posted by mistersquid on August 31, 2003 9:26 PM