African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...their limits, the restrictions intrinsic to particular materials and organizing principles. Ballot boxes, biological clocks, and lyric poems all take organizing forms. Each of these forms can be repeated elsewhere,...
Life on Autopilot
An interview with Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley, a memoir about the tech-bro universe’s notions of progress
Sunday Reading
...Susan Crawford explains why Wall Street doesn't want telcos investing in infrastructure; prefers artificial scarcity and black box network management. Unsafe after any read: Boilerplate as tort (the progressive side...
The Anxieties of Big Data
...big data, and despite their enormous budgets, technical infrastructure, and trained analysts, the big-data bonanza is not enough: They are reaching for other epistemologies by the dozen to try and...
Difference: An Audre Lorde Archive
...is an error to believe that we mean the same experience, the same commitment, the same future, unless we agree to examine the history and particular passions that lie beneath...
Um, Sunday Reading
...FBI, with the administrations' knowledge." Bint Battuta: Western Sahara and Palestine: A Comparative Study of Colonialisms, Occupations, and Nationalisms The Essence of Alexandria and, part two. The History of Graphic...
Black Magic,
White Soul
...band behind countless Motown hits, Muscle Shoals credits the Fame Studios rhythm section, the Swampers, and producer Rick Hall for the genesis of southern soul. As the latest and whitest...
Hot or Not?
...emergency evacuations including a natal unit) the slow attrition of American infrastructure yields the kind of effects one is accustomed to seeing in far-away regions, like the horror visited on...
Why Do Stars Love the Stars?
...Los Angeles. I’ve been a professional astrologer for going on five years now, time enough to consider the enduring and even mythic relationship between celebrities and astrologers. When I first...
Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia
...the Astronomical Diaries, or if there is even value to searching for them, can rewrite a domain of Mesopotamian culture where gender is traditionally assumed male or forgotten entirely. The...
Grooming Style
A conversation on how the Alt Lit scene’s documentation of sexual violence became a style of supposed sincerity
Domesticated WildCats
...now, well-crafted, well-burnished with time and beeswax, responsible and fun, artisanal and repurposed from parts of other things (mess halls, the elderly, infrastructure). Anything, really, to offer a semblance of...
Sunday Reading
...they are not the center of everyone else’s universe" googlepoetics.com soundsjustlike.com adultcatfinder.com zunguzungu: Currently reading Lorraine Adams' Harbor. Whiteness and Tokenism on the Runway Collapsing Factories and the “End Death...
Short Story Day Africa: Interview with Rachel Zadok
...would in any creative writing workshop. Tiah Beautement, a member of our team, runs the events and provides professional support - she's a published writer but also has a lot...
She Mad and She Magic
...and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity. —Audre Lorde, “The...
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.