Manual Override
...and management. And it’s no accident that the term emerges onto record in late 19th century France, because sabotage doesn’t designate something that humans have done all along, even if...
Naming Nameless
...meticulously describe the scientific rationale for the way one perceived those properties. The theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad applies Bohr to the study of humans’ relationship to technology....
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Portrait of the Artist as a Left Fielder
...games worth watching: the players’ total mind-body dedication, the innovative moves that make you shake your head and say, “I didn’t think humans could do that.” A football field or...
Turtles from the Shells
...baby turtles were leaning forward, innately enthusiastic, and running on what might be thought of as prenatal chi. It’s different for humans. Instead of being left to jump up and...
Glass Barricades, 1
...of consumption as materials and embedded time get leeched out in decreasing returns. Because umping grounds are just way-stations, however informal. The days and bodies of humans are still far...
Desecration Hardware (Prelude: The Montpellier Armoire)
...away, as though lifted off, molecule by molecule, through contact with the traces of oil in the skin of humans. Likely the fingers laid on the Montpellier armoire - we...
The Things We Do
...a fist with an invisible hammer. “You live with them, love them and have children with them like they are fellow humans, but wuuubi,” and he whistled, “I am telling...
Crazy in Love
...of dog that can be beaten into a killer exactly because they have been bred to love humans, the insane person’s hypersensitivity to experience makes them the most vivid register...
Cannesibles
...who are very happy to devour people as they see fit. Still, while humanoid, they aren’t humans themselves; their form of “cannibalism” is no different than foodies consuming truffle chocolate...
The Honeyed Siphon
...purpose of reproducing a social order that would sooner kill its humans than rearrange itself. What haven’t changed, despite this social inversion of Type 2 cases, are the forms of...
Cruel Poptimism
Ariana Grande’s hit single “No Tears Left to Cry” might be the late-summer cipher for living in a lost future
Instructions for Young Manhood
...the dictator added. * MacFadden was fascist in another sense: he loved men’s bodies while hating men who loved men’s bodies. His magazines, however, full of photos of perfect humans,...
Walking in L.A.
...a technological playground where humans and machines meet to revitalize society. Thom Andersen’s 2010 film Get Out of the Car reworks the genre of the “city-symphony” film, playing off the...
All The Wild Animals
...animal it all falls apart. Whatever wild animals are, they are not like humans. They don’t think like we do, or feel, or fuck. We might talk about instinct in...
Percival Everett by Percival Everett
...image system that he has deployed in several novels, an invitation to ponder the philosophical significance of the substance. Humans are made up of 70 percent water. The Earth is...