Cover
Contents
Preludic
I. The Hundreds
1. First Things
2. Swells
3. Dilations
4. Space Junk
5. You have to start somewhere
6. This is vanilla
7. Handyman
8. Writing, Life
9. Red Bull Diaries
10. As if
11. Checked out OK
12. Graduation Speech, 2016
13. The New Ordinary
14. Contact Sheet
15. The Things We Think With
16. Worlds
17. Weight of the World
18. Today in Political Emotions
19. The Road
20. The State of Drift
21. On Collaboration
22. The Icing on the Cake
23. Bad Feelings
24. Halloweens
25. Take a Breath
26. Friction
27. The Game as Method
28. Once
29. This isn’t consoling
30. In the middle
31. Cover Story
32. In the cut
33. What Does Webster’s Say about Soul
34. Against literal-minded explorations of the ordinary
35. At the Y
36. No world beyond the world
37. Slide
38. Two Elizas
39. Keep It Together
40. Welcome to the Joke
41. The women
42. Outside chances
43. Writing Lessons
44. Fish in Drag
45. Suicidiation Nation
46. The Morning Demons
47. A Place
48. A Skeletal Thought
49. Utopian Capitalism
50. Chicago
51. A return
52. Stony Island Story Problems
53. Last summer
54. Let’s Not Ask for the Moon
55. Minds at Work
56. Everyday Life in Early Spring
57. Atmospheric Pressures
58. After Meth
59. Thought practices
60. Approaching the Commercial Corridor
61. What the houses are doing
62. On Editing
63. This Week in Shakes
64. Lifelines in the middle of nowhere
65. Hefty with Febreze
66. A Family Line
67. In the Terminal
68. Kinships
69. Projects
70. Friendhating
71. What Comes Through
72. Everyday, a Video Installation
73. Collecting
74. If we could pay attention to everything
75. What is it to be naked among men
76. Camera Worthy
77. The Strange Situation: A Wedding Album
78. All I know is
79. Written in a place that smells like chicken
80. Anxiety made a nest in her
81. Book Reviews
82. The Twins
83. All the Desperate Calls Rolled into One
84. It’s Structural
85. Media Trouble
86. Hundreds do things
87. Survivors in Training
88. Two young men with beards kissing on the floor
89. Refractions
90. Reading Notes, the Week of December 16, ’16
91. Just being me
92. Office Hours
93. Under Pressure
94. Ordinary Love
95. Stocking Up
96. Bad Weather
97. In it
98. A Number on Introductions
99. A month in arrests and other things
100. Not Over Yet
II. Indexes
Index • Fred Moten
Not-Index • Andrew Causey and C. Thresher
The Index • Susan Lepselter
Untitled • Stephen Muecke
For Your Indexing Pleasure
Some Things We Thought With