Gilding the Lily
...hardly be described as natural? What about vitamin pills? Does a facial count as inside or outside? What about diets promising glowing skin as their main benefit, or pills promising...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...Jessie develops a dependency on over-the-counter caffeine pills. This climaxes in a scene during which she collapses in a fit just before a big performance. “I’ll let everyone down! I’ll...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...xoJane.com (after failed attempts to resolve her drug addiction) and subsequently joined Vice as their “pills and narcissism” correspondent with a column titled “Amphetamine Logic.” As writers buzzed about Marnell’s...
Woke Up Dead
...our dystopian Âscience-fiction future is not a cold technocracy. Rather, it’s one that exploits our very needs as humans to emote, to communicate, to feel our existences validated and solidified....
Triple-Decker Weekly, 44
...have some length, and which can vibrate in different ways. [Steven Gubser/The Browser] Did you know that around 85% of humans only breathe out of one nostril at a time?...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 35
...photo by Brittany Markert The three most disruptive transitions in history were the introduction of humans, farming, and industry. If another transition lies ahead, a good guess for...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 148
...iBorderCtrl has been built. More globally, we have to remind that AI has no understanding of humans (to be honest, it has no understanding at all). It just starts being...
Sunday Reading
...Academic Job Market CUNY Declares War on Rebel Faculty Painkiller Post What Happened to Shulamith Firestone Telegraph Avenue http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/how-coal-brought-us-democracy-and-oil-ended-it-lessons-from-the-new-book-carbon-democracy.html http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/romney-will-solve-crisis-exact-same-gop-plan-2008-2006-2004 Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual The Worst Teacher in Chicago No,...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The restless land meets...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell’s “The Sack”
...need to be deep to contain oblivion. If “The Sack” is about reading—if “reading” is what’s inside the sack—then it’s a sack whose outside contains everything else in the world:...
Everything is a Target—Full Text of Interview with Peter Galison
...But it could get worse too. And no one really knows—certainly the Tokyo Electric Power Company doesn’t know—how to contain this. It just keeps getting out. What did the Japanese...
Queering the Void
...for mainstream audiences, lending televisual form to the upscale imaginaries of Paris’s queens, Bravo would appear to contain an aesthetics of opulence to the enterprises of its white, affluent women....
Everything Is a Target
...to this question because if we can’t contain nuclear waste, if there is no such thing as a bunker for it—and I just read that the levels of radioactivity in...
Salvage, Without the Punk
...of exclusion. (The half-step toward the actually existing treatment of humans as such waste seethes under all of this.) In James White’s Deadly Litter (1964) – a proto-Gravity with a...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...be OK, or at least good enough, for now? Can the American war machine ever grasp its enemies as fully developed humans? Since we are used to managing already lowered...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Solid Personal Achievements
...she’s human, just human, and sometimes humans are jerks. Last year, I had the good fortune to interview Adichie herself, in the bar of her hotel in San Francisco where...