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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 The techno-libertarian faith effectively repealed the skepticism of technology beyond human comprehension and control engendered...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...
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...
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!”...