1983 - 1962
...world a bit while finishing this up, I'll share excerpts for those interested. For those not, sorry - things more likely to inspire John Mayer trolls will return shortly, as...
The Future of Streaming Services May Be In The Past
...services were never really a revolutionary tech product at all? What if the major labels really needed everybody to think that for a little bit because they owned equity in...
Socializing the Dark Web
...media, so that’s what the common population think it is all about. Usually when I mention Tor to people, they almost physically back away from me, expecting me to be...
The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, and Fear [Guest Post]
...thing we can’t have, the thing we can’t do, is possible; we crave a bit of magic. I am and was no different. Growing up as a black disabled woman...
Dragged Down by the Stone
...may prove difficult to accept, it represents the only way for the sheep to effect change. Messianic deliverance in the world of "Sheep" comes not from above or without but...
Opening the Gate
...England was a little bit like that. We need to go back. We need to go back. And then I came back to Côte d’Ivoire, and my writing has changed....
Trailing after Tarzan
...only functions to excuse and obfuscate what remains as an underlying but still effectively felt message. That the movie is more complicated, more nuanced, more multi-valenced, even more contradictory and...
London, Underground
...survived. Londoners knuckle down. We don’t grumble. We get on with things. We keep calm - as that resurrected bit of defunct military propaganda now plastering tote bags, tourist tat...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 25
...you might accept the need for some guidance but question taking it from me. That is a fair point—more than fair. I have given quite a bit of bad advice...
The Fog of More
...cultural libertarians of the Wired set and the congressional class of Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution. The techno-libertarian faith effectively repealed the skepticism of technology beyond human comprehension and control engendered...
Loving the Alien
...the right word here—…want, in short, to liberate themselves.” Attalian composition seems like a mishmash of different philosophical concepts: there’s a little bit of Herbert Marcuse’s idea of “narcissistic” eros...
An Interview with George Scialabba
...usually provided by strong families and local communities. For many reasons – economic development, geographical mobility, religious tolerance, the rise of nation-states, the emancipation of women – those bonds have...
This Sex Which Is Not Two
...you can begin to see what the components of it are. A dynamic systems approach always has to be developmental and longitudinal. A cross-sectional bit of data is just the...
Astral Projections
...contested on earth—gloriously stuck into the moon’s surface. It’s probably the closest I’ve ever come to what Americans were possibly feeling on that day 1969! Talk a bit about this...
Open Office Plan
In an office tower belonging to a new-media company in lower Manhattan, employees live, sleep, advertise products, and occasionally write content, together. And they aren't allowed to leave.
#JustineHasLanded
...common (as one can get malaria by simply being in an area where infected mosquitoes are likely to bite you). Which is the mis-statement that the “Just kidding. I’m white!”...