Adrian Mendizabal

“Writing about the American presidential election from a militant perspective has many pitfalls.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.” She picked up my machete. “Play something.” She held the handle out. “Make music.”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection

“The villain Thanos can bend all of reality except for the metaphysics of capitalism.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“Here’s the whole country, busy replacing vinyl with cassette tapes and CDs and worrying if it’s going to have to go through the whole process again a year or so from now with the new DAT tapes and mini-discs; since the Berlin Wall tumbled last November, millions are poised for the leap into cyberspace, where everything glitters and soars, but nothing dribbles or squishes; the summer is getting into spandex and roller blades; the number of AIDS cases is now within a stone’s throw, one way or the other, of a hundred thousand; awhile ago the Variety had been closed down because, said an article in the Daily News, “158 acts of unsafe sex” had been observed there by a plainclothes inspector over—what?”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Mad Man: Or, The Mysteries of Manhattan