Time

...our present lifestyle depends on material sourced from petroleum, itself the spent residue of earlier eons (via casey at dh support). Tim Maly’s interview with materials scientist Dr. Debbie Chachra...

Testing

...test itself, a test of how far we can push the materials of society to reflect critically on themselves. With this latest collection, we hope we’ve passed the test....

Psychic Refuge

...Western psychiatry pathologizes and depoliticizes the trauma experienced by refugees Contemporary psychiatric care and infrastructure in the Middle East is inadequate to the occurrence of psychiatric conditions resulting from...

Sunday Reading

...en Venezuela Kitabet: Fire Behavior On the Anthropology of Infrastructure “This is only the latest instance of the targeting of Palestinian soccer players by the Israeli army and security forces.”...

Aging

...Alcoholics Anonymous. While we treat old age and its attendant decay as a constant, there are inhuman materials that surround us which refuse to go along at our familiar rate....