Writing a bodaboda to Rideavism
...in desperate need of multi-lane roads—that is, if it is to operate efficiently—and at the present time, it lacks them. (Though China is coming!) As a result, you can spend...
Coldplay: Live at the Self-Checkout
Coldplay’s exciting new collaboration with grocery-store self-checkout aisles pushes the boundaries of automation, commerce, and art.
Spy vs. History
...says we don’t share a common humanity?” The closing torture sequence is shockingly original and a little bit unhinged (it leads the narrator into a mind-body crisis). But it also...
A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
Santorum's Gifts
...us to their standards). As such, it's actually kind of a liberal complaint, if only in the classical sense: a rigid hierarchy is stifling the individual will and a political...
Chinua Achebe, No Longer At Ease
...2013, and then again in 2015. First as tragedy and then as farce. These sorts of things happen, a bit like forest fires. You can track down the place where...
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...
Collector's Item
...Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library" is sort of the canonical account of collector-hood, but I am put off a bit by his talk of "real libraries" and being a "genuine...
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...
Not this. More that!
...“I am satisfied.” It is how we process an experience that feeds us. Experiences that feed us can satisfy us. Satisfaction names an evaluative act: not simply “it feels good,”...
Heroine: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
...emotions—anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion—that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that that women musicians have been denied access to this power.” Male fans...
Kenya’s Three Tribes
...for twenty shillings at a time, so they can feed their families for one more day. Philo Ikonya, president of PEN Kenya, and other activists stands outside Kenya's Parliament arms...
Sunday Reading
...and easy to manipulate" "The TSA's Instagram feed shows the artistic side of confiscated material" ""cyber" has, in a way, returned to its dark science-fiction roots" "What the NSA needs...
Drama for Cannibals
...premised on the idea that “human beings are inherently good, and that although convicted criminals have committed heinous crimes against other human beings, this inherent goodness still lives deep within...
Social Media, Social Factory
...everyday in the physical world. But in return, it wants you think of yourself only in terms of what you can share on the site, what can feed its databases....
Wages Versus Progress
...stagnate. It doesn’t say, feed families or obviate want or improve lives and opportunities for wage earners. The idea that fair wages should be a normal part of the calculation...