Lessons of Engagement
...of the image.) The image of the whole earth provided a counterpoint to the mushroom cloud, which had become “a symbol for the collapse of Western civilization,” as Anselm Franke...
Novel History
The imagined “lost confessions” of an infamous 18th century English thief fucks with the demand on trans people to produce themselves as case histories, in order to illuminate something new about the present
Sunday Reading
...Body On the 13 Words That Made Me A Writer "I'm Also a We": Collective First Person and Cloud Subjects The Full Texture of a City Also see: Guts!...
Collector's Item
...To escape one's cultural banality, Groys suggests, one must "work professionally in the cultural field." Collecting things is a way to pretend to that status, especially if one approaches it...
Song Yang's Vigil
Join Red Canary Song Saturday, November 30 to imagine a world where all massage parlor workers are safe and respected
Sunday Reading
...Frank Pasquale: How to read a health news story; watch out for aspirin. Too big to fail, too complex to regulate. Brave nun, Piketty-style pope. Time for some...
Then and Now and Never (Part 1)
...the dirt, all the shared silence to listen for murmurs, all the dogs who come from afar to smell life through meters of rock. But often, as happened today, when...
Sunday Reading
...What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire Moscow's School of Migrants’ Languages Searching for 10th-century vegetarian communists in Bahrain Letters Received by the East India Company from its...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Seven
..."One time you said that a nation is a record of births and deaths." I blink a few times, searching my memory for when I said this and in what...
Future's Coming Much Too Slow
...developed further on the song that follows it on the album, the restless, searching "Peace of Mind." "Future's coming much too slow," Delp sings, setting the tone for the song's...
Interview in Ibraaz
...that for him, the act of searching requires an artist to be still. Stillness and limitation and non-arrival isn't conventionally associated with wild and hellishly beautiful art. ...
Twilight of the Cruise
...is the New Yorker’s dérive. “The cruise about searching for everything worthwhile about existence. It is about walking into the bar and lusting after all the worthwhile possibilities. It is...
Escape Velocity
...story ends with Harrington’s ascension into an MFA program while throngs of blue-shirted government agents carry on scanning, searching, waving on, patting down. It would be like a parodic remake...
Book Review: The Beauty Experiment
...for our most important questions about beauty and femininity, and where I once found that frustrating, I now find it freeing—for if answers or solutions don’t come easy, maybe searching...
Finer Things
...on the differences between mineral, spring, distilled, and purified waters and brands). But Bateman finds a way in by resolutely remaining on the surface, generating an implicit, searching critique through...
Sunday Reading
...Kitabet: After the Ceasefire: Searching for Accountability “The patients’ case files read like a people’s history of Iraq.” Farmyard Geomorphology What Can Forensic Architecture Reveal About the Conflict...