Country Crushes
...the cheap rent — but rich cities have the right infrastructure to incubate artistic talent. “There are at least 15 years of hard work behind their bright plumage,” Bound continued,...
The Myth of Cyberspace
...laptops or desktop PCs. Perhaps, most importantly, the Web itself varies widely based on users' geographic location. Beyond the basic issues of infrastructure and state censorship, there are other geographically-bound...
Language Under House Arrest
Foregoing a mere politics of visibility, queer Russian poets seek new forms of agitation and proletarian solidarity
Ordinary Boredom
...about eternity. The postcards conjure a world where ordinary use of taken-for-granted infrastructure imposes no wear, inspires no conflict, occasions no longing. Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens....
breathless babbling and blathering about Okwiri Oduor
...was familiar terrain, the kind of evergreen arguments that pass through each generation and which had found their way to this one. Much of it was also wildly tangential. There...
Love Craft
...The epistolary affair did wither (as do all passions in a fickle fourteen-year-old heart), and the Texan’s tape rests "A correct comprehension of external, material things is a preliminary to...
The Things We Do
...Luzze let it pass: children play all sorts of games. But then it went on and on until Luzze decided to follow the boy. What he saw almost blinded him....
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...pass through other streets of old Paris. They arrive in front of an anonymous house, with small shops below, and enter. Reappearance of ‘sick’ Paul. 23. House of clandestine meeting...
History of Dialogue: Tamil Stories
...Sinhalese symbol of Buddhist history. Every day, Tamil people living in these parts, in buses and cycles (they have very little), all of them have to pass and see this...
What Happens in Girls Club
...movie, but I can't remember if I'd come up against them as a kid myself. It's just a notebook where you write insults and rumors about other girls and pass...
Watching Women Want
...world, after all. But what moves me is not a beautiful pass, or a bad refereeing call, or even the players’ backstories. What moves me is the players’ faces, and...
The Standardized No. 2 Pencil Test
...standardized test—which is exactly what these beauty tests are—has been not so much to determine any one person’s score but rather to divide people into categories. Those who pass and...
The New Inquiry Vol. 49: Interviews
...Edwige-Renée DRO, an Ivorian writer who diagnoses the African publishing industry’s problems as matters of infrastructure and class. Branden Adams’s interview with anthropologist Anna Tsing draws lessons from fungus harvesters...
TNI REX (2)
...art industry infrastructure as a soapbox. The unpermitted always has an edge in the gallery attention economy, so I'm looking forward to the inevitable collapse of museums as outside agitators...
Holy Land
...Israel to be a science that trumps current realities; discoveries of important artifacts, however dubious the claims, provide impetus for state land-grabbing and the construction of infrastructure that caters to...
Editors' Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...and “bad” bodies. In “Who Cares” Laura Anne Robertson writes of the gendered infrastructure of care work, reading her job as a nurse in a mental health-care facility through feminist...