Sunday Reading
...the bankers stay out of jail. How dissent got treated like terror [foreshadowed here]. Journalism will die unless... Golden fetters; South African mines becoming ungovernable. The financialization of art and...
Sunday Reading
...with Jim Ross We're Already Violating Virtual Reality's First Code of Ethics Marginalia: The Problem of Other Minds Don't Die with Liz Ryerson Practically Marzipan: Notes Toward a Theory of...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Rome, 1974
...is where beginnings and endings came to die. There was no way, simply no way, she had made this up herself, but her parents were poets, both of them, and...
Loving the Alien
...power to ‘make’ live and ‘let’ die”—uses statistics to optimize the life of some (privileged) groups, intensifying their access to “life” by deintensifying the access of others. For example, in...
Paths to Gory
...gruesome idea of the experiment itself than in the fact that its subjects weren’t allowed to die. The internal tension of each scene began to seep into the next. Instead...
Sunday Reading
...is superior to invention.” In Search of Istanbul’s Ghost Malls Where Ships Go To Die “After hitting the ICU, the airstrikes then continued from the east to the west end...
Resisting Trump’s Islamophobic Promise for America
...leave their homeland and bring us here, where we will die anyways. Before Donald Trump was ever elected, just the prospect of his reign inspired murderous hate. I remember that...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...nor die—is a snapshot of a moment, carved out of time, that time sweeps away from you, like a parent: he has almost died so many times. He has always...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...when or where he contracted Ebola. He died on October 8th. We don’t know what he knew, nor will we ever. A week after Duncan’s death, Sierra Leone’s president Ernest...
Burning Man Is Grey
...leather saddle, and just laughed. Bikes get alkali dust inside their frames, and die an exceptionally quick death after visiting Burning Man. It’s said that San Francisco bike dealers can...
Sunday Reading
...and Ms. Benton prays that the patient will not die before she can orchestrate a rescue. . . . The orthopedic department has a waiting list for elective procedures that...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.10.12
...roughly $15 million into keeping the channel afloat or letting it die its natural death. Goliath: Interesting Wall Street Journal piece about how mid-sized beauty brands get snatched up by...
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...extended into that third dimension of representing. *** In Angela S. Choi's 2010 novel Hello Kitty Must Die, we see the possibilities and the problems of an interpretation of Hello...
Sunday Reading
...Tom Wolfe on the birth of the New Journalism On observing one's own descent into dementia Evolve or die (or flail around in the job market) Rumors of lesbian fades...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...hand. Conversely, Bourdain’s film column in Issue 3 is titled “Eat, Drink, Fuck, Die,” an odd headline for an essay that examines two films about food and love/lust (Eat Drink...