http://hypocritereader.com/An online monthly, of essays conceptual and timely, based in Brooklyn, New York.en-usSun, 19 May 2013 15:51:21 -0000http://hypocritereader.com/28/28cover<center><img src="http://hypocritereader.com/media/images/28/ellis28cover.jpg" style="margin: auto -100px; width:800px;"><br>“Funny Story” by Ellis Calvin</center>http://hypocritereader.com/28/28coverhttp://hypocritereader.com/28/i-find-america-before-paul-simon-candowning weak cups of coffee at the Waffle House, - listening to the waitresses sigh about daughtershttp://hypocritereader.com/28/i-find-america-before-paul-simon-canhttp://hypocritereader.com/28/afterthought-to-robo-poethttp://hypocritereader.com/28/afterthought-to-robo-poethttp://hypocritereader.com/28/tender-violationsor, if the porno has a storyline - the tickler and the tickled - the « money shot » - a comeuppance to her impotent husband - <i>Straw Dogs</i> - « cheers from feminists » - a fragment of consent - hand-to-hand combat - magic circle - How can one be deflated without being full of hot air? - skipping to the punchlinehttp://hypocritereader.com/28/tender-violationshttp://hypocritereader.com/28/on-the-jerkmoments of intense humiliation - what color the walls were - my hand shot up - <i>what</i> a little <i>turd</i>! - the iron law of egos - when the event burst through the door - certain vicissitudes or derivations - Louis CK and Jerking Off - half the studio audience would be openly sobbing - Baudelaire, That Jerk - a prose poem from <i>Paris Spleen</i> entitled « Beat the Poor »http://hypocritereader.com/28/on-the-jerkhttp://hypocritereader.com/28/cremainsmy grandmother’s urn tucked under his arm - unbreakable, waterproof, light-tight and ugly - 1 hour per 100 lbs. of body - Do The Honors - The first myth about « spreading ashes » - dance around rusted anchors - U.S. law forbids the cremation of - cracked irreparablyhttp://hypocritereader.com/28/cremainshttp://hypocritereader.com/28/the-front-linean anarchist militia - Simone Weil - uncompromising politics and inventive theology - Buenaventura Durruti - playing the clown - expectation transformed into nothing - the Dad-Humor Phenomenon - smash the lightbulb with a hammer - a pitchfork in the airhttp://hypocritereader.com/28/the-front-linehttp://hypocritereader.com/27/odradekBut of course this is insane - no cybernetic loom of fate that threatens - « only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it » - intertwining and disentangling - almost apophatic - to let the letter mutate - hallucinogenic Aristotelianism - it is precisely this confusion which philosophy dispels. - Mocking the narrator’s baby-talk interrogation http://hypocritereader.com/27/odradekhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/drone-inevitabilitythe inexorable laws of aeronautics - disposition matrix - Giulio Douhet - « boots on the ground » make mistakes - Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, et al. - kill list - air power in its purest formhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/drone-inevitabilityhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/mind-factoryKünstler-robot - an anthropocentric world - what makes Kantian philosophy possible - ‘hypermnesiac machine’ - an infinite set of systematic redundancies - the irresistibility of reading - Promethean projecthttp://hypocritereader.com/27/mind-factoryhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/machine-mathematicsa new foundation for calculus - What is infinity? What exists? - this symbol-game - to an old dream of Leibniz’ - never conflict with finitary calculation - « Entscheidungsproblem » - at speeds impossible - If two mathematicians sat at an abacus - on the one hand a utopian faithhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/machine-mathematicshttp://hypocritereader.com/27/reckless-drivingfogged windows - jarring break - a basic kind of proprioception - the text crumbles, crashes, burns - impulsivity and excess - the end of a montage - Pygmalion - their fullness, but without my presence - « This is now happening » - including vandalismhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/reckless-drivinghttp://hypocritereader.com/27/vet<center><img src="http://hypocritereader.com/media/images/27/bardoff-cover.jpg" style="margin: auto -100px; width:800px;"><br>“Vet” by Naomi Bardoff</center>http://hypocritereader.com/27/vethttp://hypocritereader.com/27/matrices-poemsI called myself and / this string, his cord - a number and hung - the pin-down ends / a click on are - in random posture or - THE destination for chic - TO BE BE4 I - what is my name quiz / what is my name mean / what is my name lyrics / what is my name Hawaiianhttp://hypocritereader.com/27/matrices-poemshttp://hypocritereader.com/27/luddite-androidNo one looks at each other - little sponges - She was a plump little duck - And right they were - Do others not worry - Plop plop! - children were an utter nuisance - I like to use analogieshttp://hypocritereader.com/27/luddite-android