Vol. 26 Editors' Note: Consent
...realize you, the player, have to finish the job. To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it,...
Fist to Brain
...and social conventions, and for Levinas it is therefore the basis for all ethics. He believes that the face, in its obvious vulnerability, says: you shall not kill. Boxing violates...
Kids in the Haul
...lady? I’m the Marcia-fucking-Brady of the Upper East Side, and sometimes I want to kill myself.” II. About that Starter Mansion Life: Halfway through the 2012 documentary, The Queen of...
A Guy Named Frank
...there’s a clear potential for monopolization. The enterprising, shirtless, teenaged stoner dealer only a text away could disappear entirely. And what then will happen to the culture of weed smoking,...
1983 - 1962
...from the back of slave-drawn carts, “letting everything else drop” meant that the crew had to kill an escaped stunt tiger to keep it from eating them, because cost-cutting kept...
Power, Public Life, and The Hunger Games
...Glimmer are primed to mercilessly kill, Foxface uses traditional female strengths of cunning and agility to advance in the game. Their adherence to femininity is secondary to their adherence to...
Consent
...To do the verb to kill. Technically it’s the only time the game leaves you no recourse but to do it, but the act of pressing that button feels like...
Sunday Reading
...Moral Economy of Tech Ada Kaleh: The Story of an Island Kerim Friedman: I, the Holocaust, Am Your God President of the Philippines urging the public to kill drug addicts...
Killing the Angel in the House
...Time ever slow. Slower than molasses, slower than raw honey: turbinated sugar-time. Devoid of speed, life moved at the pace of number of books devoured, Japanese cartoon series and American...
Politics of Contempt
...I want to focus on the positive, because otherwise I would collapse. For her children, there are no baby steps. They get the same quality of teaching, the same educational...
Sunday Reading
...Don't Do Kwaanza "Serial" as an Asian-American Story Kill the Future The Mouse That Roared: The Democratic Movement in Hong Kong Communism Goes Cute: The Japanese Communist Party’s new kawaii...
Transcript on a Face
...being presented as a deadly force option while he was hitting me in the face Wilson's characterization of the community surrounding the killing scene (what the prosecution called "folks that...
The Killing Class
...more one reaches toward a higher definitional value. The police are defined by the power to kill with impunity, period. The police are the killing class. And it is in...
Troubled Mime
...own behalf. His motives he did not reveal, even after he won acquittal. As to why such a talented man should kill a child, Deburau's biographer Tristan Rémy conjectured that...
Sunday Reading
...Be “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Star Dust” A clash of cultures Sanskrit was First recorded In Syria Reclaim UC: UC president Janet Napolitano secretly had computer hardware installed...
Testing
...them. As a high school cheater, Lauren O’Neal recounts, sharing answers felt like solidarity. Cheating provided a precious moment of support — which was manifestly absent from teachers who imposed...