Pasado Compuesto
...which the Casa Lonja’s residents were to be relocated also had families living in it, which would have necessitated yet another round of evictions. The AGI’s records contain a signed...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...sight. They have been wrenched loose or unscrewed or bent with a force that is hard to fathom until we recall that zoos frequently contain a certain quantity of bears...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Leak, Memory
...remaining 166 men held captive without charge in Guantánamo Bay prison, Slahi’s story does not contain any shockers. But Slate’s excerpts may still be the first time we hear details...
Here to Make Friends
...ways an accurate model of the way things are, but from inside rather than outside the systems that usually contain us. We are nearly all forced to play arbitrary and...
Geographer's Revenge
...a West-centric understanding of history in which the peoples of the West are innocents seeking merely to contain (to use the Cold War term) the heartland’s land-based aggression. This is...
So French
...Any vaguely pharmaceutical-looking bottle bearing a Gallic label must, by definition, contain a serum or cream that will improve your life tremendously. To be "French" about beauty is to look...
Dumb Computers, Smart Cops
...dangerously muddy the issue of what the Constitution’s function was, giving would-be usurpers a means of gaming the system: [A Bill of Rights] would contain various exceptions to powers which...
Enjoy the Rules
...are not two-way—that is, by default, a link leads forward to another page, but that page does not by default contain a link back to pages that link to it....
The Art Kettle
...of the student-protestor-as-threatening-vandal, so what we call “art” operates to physically and psychologically contain a growing population of allegedly “free” thinkers, speakers, movers and livers. It does this by regulating...
red dots
...the painting’s frame but located outside the frame of the text, the red dot renders the text talismanic, as though it has the force to push away and contain blood-producing...
The Difference between Chéri and Eternity
...mostly an appearing thing — and part of what it does when it appears is appear to contain. One can hold the paperweight, but what one can’t hold is what’s...
Selfies without the self
...may be mistaken for autonomous self-expression: an assertive, short-circuiting gesture that recuperates the communication/surveillance platforms that otherwise contain the self. But selfies don’t tap a suppressed inner essence; they develop...
The Sentimentality of Evil
The Zone of Interest can be understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and domestic labor.
Air Force Drone
...force during war times and in war zones. Precisely because those powers are so broad, it’s very important to contain the legal space within which war powers can be invoked....
The Man Who Saved Prospect Park
...which we can look in the face on the morrow, with an exchange of recognition impossible yesterday." Much like a certain poet from the borough, Brooklyn backyards contain multitudes....