Devastation in Meatspace
...The missile rushing over your head was processed through an Instagram filter just hours previously. As you see it pass out of sight behind the apartment block opposite...
Sunday Reading
...your used water bottles, calculate their worth and issue a credit to your public transport pass.” "They're everywhere, and if they were even half as big as a puppy, they...
Potent Ingredients
...as earnest wooing was nothing more than a love game, a way to pass the time. Sometimes the men, if they felt their vigils went unnoticed, threatened suicide. But even...
Simplicity, Voluntary or Otherwise
...common bowl with their bare hands. "Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?"--Stanislaw Lee More affluent types might pass a single spoon among them, or they...
Fragments on microcelebrity
...and intensities pass through without being codifies into status-seeking tastes. When self-worth is bound up with connoisseurship, with having the cool things that you want to share acknowledged, you are...
Scary Negroes with Guns
...pulled a Glock pistol on me, asking me to give up whatever I had in my school backpack and my pockets. Instead I gave him an expired bus pass to...
Scents of an Ending
...state came to pass, and the Lebanese ruling class now treats the state as businesspeople would treat their private company. It is not a secret that those who hold power...
Excuses, Excuses
...adulthood without a future: “The fact was, the students all wanted to pass their exams, even if they meanwhile had to play the trombone or the saxophone or what have...
Bun of Contention
...Illustrations from Emil Braun's The Baker's Book (1902) An earlier version of this essay appears at The Austerity Kitchen’s old site. Pass some dinner rolls their way and...
Mourning
...days to each other’s vulnerability to death, and brings bodies into a kind of communion with others that will never touch or pass. No writing on the subject of death...
The literary
...silver." No one needed to censure such images to destroy their effectiveness. Time just needed to pass and expose that Updike was trying too hard, with the sort of effort...
The Networked Assembly Line
...outcomes have already come to pass. When we understand machine learning and AI to be means of production, it becomes evident that automated systems have already produced both realities: one...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 1 & 2)
...thick or thin but something moves within it something moves no the film does not open with a close-up or a long shot it opens with many things that pass...
Kenya's Security Act: Everyday Life
...For instance, you will likely pass through a security check as you enter a mall and then be subjected to further checks depending on the store you patronize. Sometimes, armed...
Borders
...vanish into thin air? The speculation only intensified when it was reported that two of the passengers were Iranian citizens traveling on stolen European passports. Media commentators spouted conspiracy theories...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...facing that oncoming peril. Me and the Spotted Elephant by Maryam Iranpanah. Image from Artanian. Why or for whom does the myth of a ‘muse’ endure? I’m not sure the...