Little Yellow Boy Giant, Terrorist
...by his presence. But the question of the semiotic effect of the masked figure remains, and that is what aroused the ire of more than 600 commenters (and at least...
Domesticated WildCats
...plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. ... “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not...
Do You Speak State?
...the Queen and other British authorities have often received replies (all catalogued on www.forvik.com). However, these replies generally involve his questions being forwarded to another office, as civil service bureaucrats...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...Remix)”. This is a rough approximation of that mix, although the "Extended Death Match Remix" has a longer, woozier, beatless opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZeaErWVCY Damn, Snake’s bristly mind raced, she may be...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Jul, One Year Later
...is carried atop waves of friends, comrades, and collaborators, a Palestinian flag flying high and undaunted above it. From this day on we aren't just revolutionaries, we are artists....
Love Worth Fighting For
...economy of abundance, endless choice, efficiency, rationalization, and standardization…. Romantic relations are not only organized within the market, but have themselves become commodities produced on an assembly line, to be...
The Novelty of African Poetry
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...let me know, and I'll try to find a way to get it to you. Omnia sunt communia, especially a century's worth of tears and bareback horseback riding.] You,...
Dr. Mabuse Dispassionately Recites Communist Theory Over Found Footage of Riots
...cool voice, the narrating voice, the dispassionate commentator, even as it invites a riot or speaks over the images of one. It acknowledges the effects of what it shows and...
African Poetry Fictions
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Keguro Macharia, "African Poetry: Introduction": The story of African poetry, if is to be told, will be the accumulation of very stories: very...
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...emphatically, "Politics should stay out of sport." An All Blacks marketing campaign by Adidas in 2008. The website, www.thisisnotajersey.com, gave fans the opportunity to have their name literally etched onto...
Hot or Not?
...on carrying on. The common experience of going through a weather-related emergency with millions of other people heightens its exceptionalism. It’s an important and necessary pause button on social priorities....
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
...won’t ever get to see that, although we’ll hear a little panting and a lot of talk about it, its quality and efficacy, its intended purpose: a sexual competition, scored...