The Internal Machine

DEC 17-JAN 18 | ArtSeen

The modern book is the product of a mechanical operation, the printing press, but as Internal Machine suggests, it can be considered a mechanism in and of itself.

Entertaining Marx in the Machine of Capital

OCT 2018 | Theater

Within days of the On Your Marx Festival’s press release going public, the internet was abuzz and The Skirball Center’s twitter account had garnered multiple responses from individuals coloring the institution, housed at NYU, as a propagator of brainwashing communism into the student body.

But this is 2018, and this is where we are, this is what happens.

And on the 200^th anniversary of Karl Marx birthday (on May 5th, actually) we might bemuse the thought, “What would Marx think about all this?”

God in the Machine

JUL-AUG 2017 | Books

The epiphany machine wants to know our secrets, the ones we show to everyone but ourselves. I know the conceit well, too: we keep making the same mistakes; the pattern is obvious to everyone except ourselves, because we are too busy performing our various social scripts to know anything about the performance, or whether we are still performing, or whether we are ever not performing.

from SHEEP MACHINE

MAY 2018 | Fiction

Sheep curves to the will of time, to the will of binocular vision. Do not underestimate. The eyes of the creator manifest movement.