The Souls of Drone Folk
...and gun, a modern-day mixture of centaur and centurion” and “the closest the military has come to creating a human killing machine”: The sniper may, like other soldiers, be subject...
African Poetry: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Dagoretti Corner begins as “the dust that has no place” and ends with “a glimmer train / of bioluminescence.” The restless land meets...
Where is the Line Between Us?
...watched from the audience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nT1Xkl6xnsE At this time, many Iranians all over the the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not...
Sunday Reading
...Effects of Global Capitalism: Prison Rape and the Government Twilight of the Lecture "Downton Abbey" anachronisms: beyond nitpickery Things Come Together: A Journey through Literary Lagos Can They Do That?...
African Poetry: D.M. Aderibigbe
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Day One 1. Now that I have no other place to go, I’ll go into my grandmother’s fingers, wrap myself with her blanket,...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...one verse and deal with intersections of network culture and urban communities of black and Latino youth, the traditional purview of hip-hop and other genres. One song, "Don't Feed the...
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...
Circle of Presence
...Altered photograph of Murray Kempton, via On a recent Sunday, I opened up my Twitter feed to find Sherry Turkle getting pummeled for an opinion piece in the...
Breakfast in Bedlam
...to feed lunatics anything to break their nightly fast. They were allowed only supper (called lunch today) and dinner. And these meals had to be bland and meager so as...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...is never neutral.” Between those who’ve never touched a computer and those who get a feed of data directly into their Google Glass sits a vast array of modes and...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
Chestnut Economics
...family of five could look forward to three hours of such work -- and this simply to prepare enough to feed themselves. The drudgery of the chestnut harvest nonetheless failed...
Death Stares
...catches glimpses of digital ghosts, as dead friends’ accounts flicker past in the News Feed. As users of social media age, it is inevitable that interacting with the dead will...
Graphic Interface
...idea of “Can you entertain people and feed them ideas at the same time?” Mcluhan. Robert Anton Wilson, in terms of recognizing that you’re in various reality tunnels. Harvey Pekar,...
Death Undone
The demand for new relations between death and technology begins with the acknowledgement of Black life
Free to Choose A or B
...with us and turns them into an entertainment product meant to make Facebook money. Facebook's excuse for filtering our feed is that users can't handle the unfiltered flow of all...