Ryan Lackey

2 months ago | mid-theory.com | Eli Cugini |Ryan Lackey

For a queer text to be narratively useful to queer people—to be indulgent, excessive, leaky—perhaps it needs to be discarded by someone else first. Popular dating shows are brutal factories of narrative, designed to make their contestants narratively useful through a mixture of incentive, isolation, coercion and selective editing.

Jun 25, 2024 | octal.substack.com | Ryan Lackey

I’ve followed Julian Assange since the Cypherpunks Mailing list days. I was in Kuwait during the Manning reveal (and PFC Manning was transported out of Iraq via the base I was on). Wikileaks was always interesting as both a technical challenge (how does one distribute highly-censored information) and an organizational/personnel challenge (how does an organization with very limited resources persist despite infinite “dirty tricks” and other opposition by many nation states.

Dec 22, 2023 | full-stop.net | Ryan Lackey

[W. W. Norton; 2023]When I heard that Chris Bachelder would soon publish a new novel, Dayswork, my first feeling was, shamefully, ambition. After a long year of being defeated by my dissertation and a summer breaking my promise to myself to write something, a new Bachelder novel seemed to be the perfect opportunity not only to write but to write something big, something with scope.