Vinyl re-enchantment
...its completion. It keeps me flipping through crates, looking for a lottery-like payout. Record stores are a bit like thrift stores in that they produce a sense of rarity and...
Ambiguity City
The Neighborhood Politics of Big Tech in Berlin
The Fame Game
...interested in comedy, I’m interested in truth, I’m interested in relaxation and people letting themselves go and letting their hair down a little bit because it’s a safe place to...
"life that could fit in a spreadsheet"
...or less explicitly. For example, "double think,” which in 1984 seems a bit far-fetched, but when he used specific political examples it didn't seem far-fetched at all. What do you...
The Data Sublime
...moves into pharmaceutical research and bodily monitoring, it had outgrown its original mission statement to “organize the world's information.” "We're in a bit of uncharted territory,” he said. "We're trying...
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 &...
The Color and the Sound
...complicated color pieces, a painting antidote that reveals some of the preternaturally darker corners of the most cheerful demeanor, like a biofeedback scan. “It can drive one a bit crazy,”...
Love Craft
...My Colors,” and whether our dial-up romance, which had blossomed so beautifully in an AOL chat room, would wither despite his gift of one perfectly sequenced bit of sonic sentiment....
Skin Feeling
...being skin. “I put quite a bit of study into the horn,” said Bird. How do you study that way? I keep coming back to the hotel, to the couple...
Lonely Letters
A conversation between Ashon Crawley and Elleza Kelley
Future Games
...to Fallout, the gaming industry is currently obsessed with apocalypse. Long a staple of TV and cinema screens, the zombie has become even more prominent on PlayStations and computers. Added...
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...
What’s Killing Jessie Spano?
...that American television birthed, is there any as famous as this? None comes to mind. Berkley splays open Jessie’s anxieties in this scene; it’s a bit of committed, earnest acting...
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,...