Trump 2.0
...former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura, who had just been elected governor of Minnesota in 1998 and who was busy reshaping the party in his own image--“fiscally conservative but socially liberal”--with...
Digital Dark Spaces
...who are interested in men living in Tehran, Iran,” which offers the further option of searching for the workplaces of those users whose results are returned. The danger may seem...
Diner Forty Niner
...in searching for gold. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." --J.R.R. Tolkien Gold fever had a leveling...
Myth of the Garbage Patch
...tease out the many and various geopolitical infrastructures–including the surveillance cameras, barbed wire, and armed security checkpoints of the global security state, for just one example–that prop up that company’s...
Tim Burton's "Big Eyes"
...a Warhol-level artist working within commercialism as a genre, doing art marketing as art itself with the flimsiest of raw materials and executing a conceptual performance piece about identity, appropriation,...
Postcard from the Internet
...photograph, the odd homeland trip, or bit of family gossip, dimly searching for the fragments of a shadowy century (or two, at most three). There is no suitable ancestry dot...
A Bandit is a Bandit
...de um menino que eu conheci. Se deu no que deu, não foi culpa dele.) Without knowing why the police are searching for Lúcio the community from which he springs...
Looking Through You
...great deal of the art of our time. Two standards of conduct and feeling that inform so much of our new work are assault (of the senses, of materials, of...
Hangar to Grave
...construction" that forgoes traditional aluminum skin sheets for sandwiched and bonded lightweight materials that make pressurization more efficient and cut fuel costs. Since the aircraft entered service in late 2011,...
terrain & terroir
...Bill—known around the world as the “Kill the Gays” Bill—criminalized “Promotion of Homosexuality”: (1) A person who--- (a) participates in production, procuring, marketing, broadcasting, disseminating, publishing pornographic materials for purposes...
New World Anxiety
...continuously being made new by old forms of violence, is shaped through those of us whose bodies are considered construction materials. It’s birthed through our deaths and maintained by our...
Lose Your Kin
...pain; and in that interjacent space of equivocation, they reconstitute and re-enflesh that ghost of a past that is not yet past. White people are searching for ways to show...
Sunday Reading
...of Varanasi Lebanese Railways: Searching for a Locomotive Italians and the Invention of Race: The Poetics and Politics of Difference in the Struggle over Libya Vasu Deva Sharma, who studied...
Gills, Gills, Gills
...nature photographer who took the 2003 photo duplicated in the viral hoaxes, said he was searching for a single photograph that could narrate his team's efforts to track white sharks...
Our Brand Could Be Your Crisis
We Are Your Friends is not our youth, but it might as well be
Sunday Reading
...South Asia Parsi Mumbai: The Legacy of Zoroastrianism in India’s Urban Fabric Archives and Origins: The Material and Vernacular Cultures of Photography in India Che in Gaza: Searching for the...