Party Time
...anniversary of “reunification” with Macao (2009) go down a bit easier. In 2013, we find ourselves in the third year of the 12th Five-Year Plan (or “Guideline”), rubber-stamped at the...
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 The techno-libertarian faith effectively repealed the skepticism of technology beyond human comprehension and control engendered...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...
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...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
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...
Laurie Penny's "Unspeakable Things"
...of what face of feminism is likely to be beamed onto the main stage. And it might even make you a little bit testy at the ways you’ve been complicit...
Celluloid Coven
...evening and about The Craft: being just a little bit younger and less experienced than everyone, feeling excited but uncertain of myself, full of yearning, covetous of the fashion, yearning...
Centrifugal Women
Yūko Tsushima’s novel of a mother on the margins
The Lossless Self
...among us is not tempted to comply? And even if we maintain consciousness, what if we are among the 80.6 percent of listeners who failed NPR’s audio quality quiz, yearning...
You bring the goat, I'll find the paw-paw tree
...the digestion, and even if you just hang a tough fowl or a bit of goat in the tree among the leaves, it gets tender in no time, for there...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...bad name, we build a crap bell tower and splash on a bit of gilt and put it on list of the Top Sights You Have to See Before You...
Why You Gotta Be So Sensitive?
...“dermatitis” bit: there’s irritant dermatitis, in which a product makes your skin itch or redden or blister for no apparent reason, and allergic dermatitis, in which your body has an...
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...
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...
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.