The forum: 'The bedroom, the kitchen, the garden, the oasis, the well, the beach, the forest, the clearing.'

The mediocrity-machine: what’s “stealing” from another when the game is to produce tripe, churn it out, and witness it flowing out of one mouth or another?

In Wikipedia’s earnest and well-intentioned struggle with its own ineluctably political nature, we may be seeing how an online community begins to think like a state.

There is something primal about going shopping and going to war. Both come from a hunger to be our best, to compete, to exercise a right or a belief.

The fate of some paintball gunshots, flames, hammers, pig's legs, and bottles of acid in August 2012 in the United States of America.

The argument that we are all at risk, bare and naked against a transcendent virus, actually serves the opposite function. Rather than making us feel vulnerable, we feel safe in our shared vulnerability.

The opening ceremony of the Olympics distorted the image of a country that was burning just one year ago and whose economy is yet waiting to cool off. Maybe the broadcasters figured there would be no audience for the re-enactment of the British slave trade, imperial torture, or people losing their jobs en masse.

Pairing the realness of celebrity participants with the real of former combatants has generated the most mainstream military drag show in American television history.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

Ten photographs.

Didn’t Miles Davis once say to John Coltrane: Whatever you play, play the blues?

Maniacal evil has a face, and that face nearly always glints darkly.