Robots on an Escalator
...I bought poet Elisa Gabbert's most recent book The Self Unstable because I like her Twitter feed. I mention this not because I want to espouse the efficiency...
No Kony Is an Island: Death and Profit in Central Africa
...makes dead various bodies, ecologies, relationships, and spaces for the purpose of squeezing out natural resources that then feed into broader supply chains. The ability to execute this task efficiently...
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...poem in its entirety: How to Love This is how you love in war: You put a bit of yourself in salt and water and feed it to him. You...
No Epiphanies Whatsoever
...xoJane.com (after failed attempts to resolve her drug addiction) and subsequently joined Vice as their “pills and narcissism” correspondent with a column titled “Amphetamine Logic.” As writers buzzed about Marnell’s...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...flicks a feed. My interest doesn't lie in the general anthropological overhaul bound up with the digital, for which the phone has come to serve as one particularly visible index....
Hi Haters!
...ATTENTION ECONOMY AS FRAMEWORK All these hipsterized efforts at cool creation feed into what’s sometimes figured as “the attention economy.” Like microfame, this metaphor is problematic — but I think...
❒ she ❒ i ✔ haze
..."what’s a kiss?" earlier wendy was talking for no reason, now she won't talk (a feminine paradox, a feed-back effect of lutropin). she approaches peter and her lips slightly open...
Consent: It’s Not Sexy
When we talk about rape as a culture, there’s a lot we don’t know how to say. Katie J. M. Baker, Victoria Campbell, Ragna Rök Jóns, Doreen St. Félix, Brenton Stokes, and Sarah Nicole Prickett discuss. Originally published April 29, 2015, in Adult. Re-presented here with a new introduction by Ana Cecilia Alvarez.
The People's Kitchen
...Does the modern workplace cafeteria owe its existence one 19th-century activist's effort to feed the laboring multitudes? Illustrations from Le Livre de Cuisine (1867) Though the phonograph and the...
Cooking Class
...pleasures of the rich. The authors of these cookbooks were, unsurprisingly, rich, too. In fourteenth century France, we see the flamboyant and wealthy Guillaume Tirel, otherwise known as Taillevent, compile...
Meanwhile, in Brazil
...Iranian sanctions proponents, take note. [Matias Spektor, World Politics Review] Nine years ago, as chief nuclear negotiator, [Iranian President Hassan] Rouhani compared the controversy around Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technology...
Get Your Strike On
...y vístanse de rojo como un lazo rojo o ropa de color roja Manifiéstate en contra de los roles de géneros • Contact/Contactenos en: [email protected] [email protected] womenstrikeus.org @womenstrikeus facebook.com/womenstrikenyc/...
Who are you going to believe, me or your lying ideology?
...what we’ve seen, we’ve decided which of those two things are probably true. And how we come to that decision will most likely have everything to do with what our...
Living Chess
...Lady Thomas appears in only one game on the popular chessgames.com database, from the first Women’s International Chess Congress in 1897, which she lost to Mary Rudge, the ultimate champion...
Natural's Not In It
...gains adherents. Paleo’s main proponents aren’t particularly partisan. Mark Sisson, who keeps the Paleo blog MarksDailyApple.com, says on his page that “people’s health and personal enjoyment of life matter more...
Clear Satire
...an amateur comedian himself, he had come to decide that “satire” simply isn’t a thing, and that when people say any variation on “Well, it’s clearly satire,” they are talking...