Adrian Mendizabal

“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

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

“To be clear, anti-natalism is a minor philosophical position. In fact, its proponents enjoy this minor status because they feel it confirms that they possess the kind of profound insight that only a few enlightened intellectuals could ever hope to attain. In this sense, it is also an elitist position and thus anti-mass, as its own dismissal of the insights from the oppressed masses demonstrates: such insights, for the anti-natalist, are delusions of the herd. They are, in a weird sense, inverted Nietzscheans who have somehow managed to copper-fasten the elitism of his philosophy with the ressentiment he despised.”
― M.I. Asma, On Necrocapitalism: A Plague Journal

“I like listening to you talk about things I don’t understand. It gets me hard. Hey,”
― Samuel R. Delany, The Mad Man: Or, The Mysteries of Manhattan