How the Bronx was Branded
Art moguls, real-estate developers, city institutions, and local elites unite in the name of development for the few, displacement for the many
Short Circuit
...and there are plenty of films available on Simple Machine’s sleek website, even in Beta form, but the problem remains eyeballs. There are almost no participating venues. Bartenders hosting movie...
Your Friends and Neighbors
...says lost her job. “Basically what they do is gointo a fetal position, and it’s very hard for them to fight back against Hunter Moore and the website because they...
The Accidental Audience
...indebted kludges, making the inclusion of his sculpture on Jogging and then accidentally on the popular kludge website ThereIFixedIt.com apropos — it successfully merged both visual vocabularies. The full circle...
City Hunger
...and Dubai was a desert plain; one wonders what this text would be in the anti-spaces of the Internet. It has an extraordinary website: polyphilo.com. Pérez-Gómez is a figurehead of...
Miracles and Wonder, Faith and Diaspora: On Tope Folarin's "Miracle"
...poverty in America, he claims that all of our cousins in Nigeria would die for the chance, but his words were meaningless before. Compared to what I have already experienced...
The Missing Medium
...a dating website for the actual purpose of seduction. The distinction between an action, and art as a way of reflecting on action is lost. This ambiguity continues in Bogost’s...
In the Water
...natural fear; no valiant swordsman wants to imagine being hoisted with his own petard. But those are also the worries of an expert, a master. The official website for the...
The Year the Pandemic "Ended" (Part II)
A timeline of covid normalization in the US in 2022 (Part II)
What's the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...to feeling some version of her disappointment when a novelist who I believe ought to have known better, Salman Rushdie, succumbs to Twitter. Or when a politically committed print magazine...
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
...on living at LuxLotus.com. Glamour is the word, pertaining to me, that I hear most often from other people, and, in truth, the word I think of least on...
Cooking Class
...of new ideas. I look at my own bookmarks and see blogs on everything from living on wartime rations (the1940sexperiment.com), on offering a historic menu each day (theoldfoodie.com), to showcasing...
Open Wide
...them to music and turned them into a pair of successful albums in the 1990s. When entrepreneur Michael Birch was putting together social network Bebo.com in 2006, he reached out...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Enigma Deviations
...14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do? (1:58:31 PM) [email protected] : Tired of being tired (2:17:29 PM) bradass87: ? (6:07:29 PM) [email protected]:...
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...