Airplane Reading, Rarified
...United Airlines regularly—and when I do, I’m not in first class—I assumed I would have to sweet-talk a United gate representative into smuggling a copy out of a waiting airliner...
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...was invited to speak at the “Human Be-in,” a free concert set to take place at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The lineup included musical heavyweights like Dizzy Gillespie,...
A Conspiracy Between the Far-Right and the #J20 Prosecutions
The prosecution’s strategy to convict anti-Trump protesters, medics, journalists and dissidents reveals how much white nationalists have seized institutional power
The Search for Posthumanism
...we are enriched by the connection between two otherwise disparate systems of living. * * * We’ve already begun to taxi to the gate in a strange new afterworld. Surrounded...
Adventures in Candyland
...of Rilke’s suggestion in Dunio Elegy Nine that: Are we here, perhaps, for saying: house, bridge, fountain, gate, jug, fruit-tree, window – at most: column, tower......but for saying, realize, oh,...
Commuter Riots
...is playing, tailgaters often spill out of the parking lots and onto the grasslands surrounding the country’s largest asphalt bar (with a $30 gate fee.) On game days in the...
Kafka in Translation
...No one pushes his way through here, certainly not someone with a message from a dead man. and if at last he should burst through the outermost gate— but never,...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...feast of the post war economy. When Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and gave his famous “Tear Down This Wall” speech, it was under conditions of de facto...
Social Habits
...wine, and generally entertained in grand style. The day was hot, his exertions great. The poet reached Tegernsee monastery's gate keen on refreshing himself. Yet no sublime vintage, no comfits...
Terrifying Robot Update: Tuesday, December 15, 2015
...the official premiere run. The stately looking robot with its friendly but unstirring "face" will be guiding passengers, unaccustomed to navigating international airports, from one gate to another. Researchers from...
Contained selves
...strait gate of desubjectivation; you can reject the limits of embodied contingency without having to push your body past its limits. These experiences can be virtual; risk can be courted...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
At some point Thursday, the title of Jon Ronson’s essay changed from “How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life” to “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up...
This Week In Art Crime
...on a gate covering the entrance to a vacant storefront on the corner of North Broad and Hanover streets to cover an illegal advertisement for a nearby liquor store. (via)...
Getting In
Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections and the Racial Politics of Literary Awards
Clear Satire
...it makes them more interesting. Vikram Seth’s The Golden Gate or Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, for example, are written in verse but that’s precisely what makes them interesting evolutions or...
City of Brotherly Love
...on displaying its characters in an actual San Francisco—they have conversations on public transit, go on walks through Golden Gate Park, admire the view at Ocean Beach, party in Dolores...