Powers of the Bottom
...Could you talk a bit more specifically about the relationship between your text-based work and filmmaking practice, particularly with regards to the filmmakers you mention? I am quite drawn to...
A Very Brief History of Viking Victuals
...Rhode Island matriarch’s stained glass window depicting the Viking fleet that discovered America found itself surpassed only by a statue, commissioned by another great New England lady, of Lief Erickson,...
City of the Moon
...of an effort to combat Israeli discourses of Palestinian foreignness and Jewish indigeneity that seek to religiously and historically legitimize the contemporary dispossession of Palestinians, and which will undoubtedly be...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
Miyoko Hikiji, Soldier, Author, and Model, Iowa
...make sure it actually looks like she is. All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq, Miyoko Hikiji, History Publishing Company, 2013; available in Barnes &...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...2012 should have been Bram Stoker's year. Vampires have arisen everywhere. In time for the centenary of Stoker's death, his immortal creations now command enormous box office: Vampires...
Beauty Blogosphere 11.9.12
...action after the Khroma team essentially ignored their cease-and-desist letter. Osiao growth: Estee Lauder marches forward with its wide-scale promotion of Osiao, the company's newly developed line for Asian consumers....
Extremists in The Mainstream
...names (“Operation Danny” on one page becomes “Operation Dani” on the next). This can get just silly, as when he mentions “baklava” (the delicious pastry common throughout the Levant) among...
Zombie Novel
...bit?’ ‘No, it’s his past,’ he heard the comm operator say. The recruit moaned some more. ‘His past?’ ‘His P-A-S-D man, his P-A-S-D.’” Like everyone else, Mark Spitz has a...
Occupy The Library
...— and then, at 5, he declared the “The Library is Now Closed!” A hearty round of applause and finger-snapping greeted this bit of cognitive dissonance from the 80 or...
The MOOC Moment and the End of Reform
...first thing I want to do, then, is slow us down a bit, and go through the last year with a bit more care than we’re usually able to do,...
Taming the Inexplicable
...story fully, it suggests the island is one big VR experience commissioned by a federation of different countries to increase worker creativity and efficiency. A hidden audio log from this...
Revenge of the Thanatoids
...already read it before, all of it. Or to put it a bit less crudely, it’s difficult to imagine this book’s circulating outside one or two of the subcultures that...
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
...Lunch in the Car -- Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island 06/1973 --From The U.S. National Archives "So to sum up, there is a small bit of the macrocosm inside...
Woke Up Dead
...tool that’s free to download and requires very little programming foreknowledge. With a simple bit of syntax, the developer can create complex pieces of interactive fiction. Theoretically, any web design...
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...