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Wall, Ground, Air
...wall and compare its securitarian spectacularity with the ones built at the edges of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas in the last decade. We then address the question of the ground...
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...-000000 To: [email protected] Message-ID: {unknown} Preliminary Notes on an Initiation Ritual to expedite Attunement of new members into S-HEx Working Group (PowerD.) of the New York Shex Branch of the...
(Some Provisional Writing on) Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project"
...close-reading, no well-wrought urn. Lacking the type of formal complexity that tempts us to fetishize "the poem" as a qualitatively different event than a mere sentence in prose, it’s a...
Summer Break
Dearest Readers, For the last week of August, TNI's staff and contributors will be taking a much-deserved vacation. This week you can take the time to work through...
People Sorters
...ban” for the past nine months, this kind of xenophobia was no surprise. But an interesting detail emerged as journalists tried to determine how Trump’s off-the-cuff policy proclamations might actually...
Get Thee to a University
...ticket and came on the train." Hessler couldn't deviate further from the standard post–9/11 construct if she tried. No retiring domestic goddess, she, like so many other women, felt duty-bound...
& (A film in 13 scenes, scenes 9 & 10)
...inscribed at the bottom of a certain quantity of dirt. It was more final than any deposits of shale. So many times we tried to go down so many times....
Editors' Note, Vol. 40: Trash
...present,” they write. Continuing on their tour of the museum, they pass a monumental pile of failed techno-fixes the feedback loops of capitalism have tried to employ to “black-box” waste...
Masstige and Bargain Beauty
...knowing that I’ve tried less expensive brands and that the high-ish price actually buys quality in this case. What nonfinancial rewards are most likely to drive your own beauty purchases?...
Geographer's Revenge
...unsolvable, being ultimately manifestations of the analyst’s pessimism or optimism. And in a complex world, pessimists and optimists can always find evidence. Contemporary geographers, however, have tried to move past...
It's Hip to Eat Mare
...prime of life and its muscle strength is too firm.] The horses I sell grow up in the south of France or in Normandy where there’s a huge horse culture....
Edith Wharton and Yo Momma
...that I tried to circumvent in the piece was that female writers will forever be judged on the way we look, something my own experience has backed up when I've...
This Week in Art Crime
...was no victim: he paid the pair with photocopied money. The con artists realized they had been tricked when they tried to deposit 1.7 million Swiss francs (€1.5 million) in...
"violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid"
...around the perimeter, armed with both guns and pencils, the latter to take notes as to who was speaking and what the speaker was saying. We tried to make this...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini