The White Man's Burden
...the fourth floor — with its attention to “the physical capacity of materials” – paints him in romantic hues as a virile wrestler with the sublime forces of nature. Here,...
A Saudi Arabia Reader
...industrial paint, various materials (2011) “I Sang Mecca” (poem in Arabic) (sung by Fairouz) Jerome Taylor, “Mecca for the rich: Islam's holiest site ‘turning into Vegas’” (The Independent, 2011) ...
Cruise Control
...no “offensive or pornographic” materials be included in a profile; violation leads to profiles being disabled. But Grindr’s media celibacy, however, doesn’t stop the app from publicly identifying as a...
Editors' Note, Vol. 44: Counterfeit
...made from found materials and a single sewing machine. And in “Making Again, Making Against,” Paige Sweet writes of the artist Gerald Machona, whose medium is the famously inflationary Zimbabwean...
Armed Words
...of information, photos, footage, maybe not a lot of written materials, but I am interested in this because the meaning of cultural revolution — Syria is a part of the...
LIES
...knee now, soft pink scar tissue seaming the ends together.” Culling from a range of materials — Freud, the Satanic Ritual Abuse frenzy of the 1980s, and personal anecdotes —...
Hometown Unglory
...help but be struck at the wonder in his reverential paintings—this despite the materials Shaw has chosen. He exclusively uses Humbrol enamel paints, designed for model trains and airplanes and...
Slugs and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails
...Rosalind Wiseman is the author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, Queen Bee Moms & King Pin Dads, Owning Up Curriculum, “Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous Materials,” and the...
Economy of Dissonance
...Together they used ordinary, found materials and single sewing machine to design unique copies of branded bags. They then attempted to sell them on the streets of Naples. The production...
The Art of Conjecturing
...the materials necessary for assembling new genetic systems for a few hundred dollars online, this vision looks more relevant every day. In his concluding chapter, “A Lampoon of Evolution,” Lem...
"Real beauty comes from within"
...isn't for cosmetics to be made out of innocuous materials. It's for women to lay themselves bear, allowing whichever pseudo-evolutionary-psychology choice-process to take place unimpeded. 'Natural beauty' is anything but...
History Repeating: The Weblog
...the talkative; catch-words to informers; fuel to the envious; poison to the unfortunate; balsam to the wounded; employment to the lazy; and fabulous materials to romancers and novelists.” ...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...as American as apple pie or Walt Whitman. With different materials and a completely different intellectual and verbal style from Lawrence, he made a subtly parallel argument about the forgotten...
The Sabotage of Production: A Lecture by Evan Calder Williams @ Bark Room 12/4
...that learns how to listen to cues given by the circuits, patterns, and mechanisms themselves, how to access the embedded knowledge and hostility of all those materials waiting to help...
Vol. 73 Editors’ Note: Lies
What will be the story of how we made another world?
Our Nukes, Ourselves
Nuclear heritage and nuclear stewardship in a quiet desert town