"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...
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...
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...
Interview: Leah Smith, Public Policy Ph.D. Student, Lubbock, TX
...of confidence to it. Dressing well has been huge in my life. The comments and the stares could have been really easy for me to internalize if I weren’t careful....
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,”...
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...
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...
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...
The Year of Risk
...coast of some Atlantis beneath we ignore it And keep moving on the icy streets of our Little town. “Be careful,” you say, “That puddle has completely frozen. Take care...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...here: You, too, can rent "Sex-Based Differences in Compliment Behavior," Language in Society, 1990, pp. 201-224, for 24 hours! With that in mind, it’s easy to see why women might...
Tender Potatoes
...because Akerman’s films offer an insight into the loneliness and quiet beauty that comes from physical isolation in a time when society increasingly tends to replace the fleshy body with...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...their classification as either parasite or as guest. The first prediction that comes up on a google search for “insect” is “insecticide.” It’s an indication that on the most quotidian...
Doing it Wrong
...not happen. Which helped feed my fear when faced with my earliest intimate situations which led that first boy to report on my inadequacy to his friends. Which fed my...
#mybodymyhome (ii)
...my lips. Touch every part of my being with your fingertips. Explore my soul and take my breath away. With your tenderness possess my heart. Feed me with love....
The Participation Problem
Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising is an ethnographic exposure of how Canadian services for Indigenous youth perpetuate carceral coloniality.