Vol. 3: Arguing the Web
...Mediums of Exchange by KAREN GREGORY The Myth of Cyberspace by PJ REY Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times by MICHAEL SEIDENBERG [subscribe] Now and forever, content on...
Vonnegut's Firefighters
...world for the celebrity writer, this is perhaps the gesture he would have appreciated most. Gregory Sumner is the author of Unstuck in Time: A Journey through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life...
Abel, Buried by a Crow
The 1915 Armenian Genocide endures in the very fabric of Turkish society—but who remembers and who takes responsibility?
The Transcendence of the Makeover
...of transcendence and creates a storyline around it in a way her fairy-tale precedessors never did. Just as Gregory Maguire’s Wicked took the underlying themes of imperialism and cultural autonomy...
Women’s Work in Natural History Museums
...Christoph Irmscher, Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, “Innovative Niche Scientists: Women’s Role in REframing North American Museums, 1880-1930,” Centarus, vol. 55,...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...a reliquary of stylized sadness, of traditional poses borrowed from art history and redeployed in bathrooms, motel rooms, and Gregory Crewdson-ish setups. Her confidence that this contrived, commodified emotion will...
Praying in The Closet
...i nightclub in San Francisco on the same bill as groundbreaking comedian and activist Dick Gregory, and at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Washington National Cathedral with accompaniment by...
The Science of What Makes Pain So Personal
...be recognized by others. Further Reading Joanna Burke, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (Oxford University Press, 2014). Robert Gregory Boddice, ed., Pain and Emotion in Modern History...
Droning On
...reconnaissance), sighting (targeting in movement and in the moment), and eliminating (“putting warheads on foreheads”), the drone constitutes an assemblage of force (as drone-theorist Derek Gregory puts it) that promises...
Army Realness from NATO to NBC
...never about people (plus their families and their homes) but buildings to be demolished. War studies scholar Derek Gregory calls this territory of mere targets the 'object-space.' This premise sits...
Daddy
...end. In “Daughters Have Their Own Agendas,” Tiana Reid rereads Dick Gregory’s 1964 autobiography in the light of her relationship with her dad, weighing her loyalty to the mother who...
Distracted by Attention
...proposes a different way to conceptualize it, as an ecology rather than economy. In this, he follows thinkers such as Gregory Bateson, Félix Guattari, and Spinoza (especially as he has...
The Ardor of Secession
...render anachronistic. As legal scholar Gregory Mark writes, “Petitioning was a vital element in a political and constitutional culture that is not coming back.” The desuetude of petitioning seemed assured...
Editors' Note: Vol. 43: The Daddy Issue
...In “Daughters Have Their Own Agendas,” Tiana Reid rereads Dick Gregory’s Nigger in the light of her relationship with her dad and the titular word, weighing her loyalty to the...
Sunday Reading, June 18, 2023
...man, but neither daddy’s patriarchal power remains intact by the end. In “Daughters Have Their Own Agendas,” Tiana Reid rereads Dick Gregory’s 1964 autobiography in the light of her relationship...
Sunday Reading
...Egypt’s Golden Age of Rock Photography & Power in the Colonial Philippines: Dean Worcester’s Ethnographic Images of Filipinos (1898-1912) Derek Gregory on the idea of the "Middle East" Varanasi's bhang...