"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...
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?...
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...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
Mind Games Forever
...ways the counterculture was domesticated and commercialized over the course of the 1960s, redirecting the revolutionary impulses aroused by contempt for the system at one’s own personality, which, in the...
#JustineHasLanded
...and Steve are a “we” together—Justine Sacco’s joke became a greasefire because she tried to perform both sides of the play, to be both the minstrel and the straight man,...
A Contrary Image of Steaming Excrement
...registered innumerable little bites with detached and uplifted little finger. ('Pastry hour,' they call it) "I tried to undermine Scherbaum's disgust (and my own): 'When you come right down to...
Safe in Our Archives
...artists have tried to realize this utopian aspiration have shifted over time. Modernism sought a "true self" that was different from the given, contingent identity; postmodernismhoped to dissolve identity into...
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Dines
...and underwent multiple tests in the murky waters of the Thames. The first military application came in 1776, when a small, acorn-shaped machine named Turtle tried, and failed, to sink...
Rootless and Ruthless
...and dreaming of a future where we could be proud of ourselves. We tried terribly hard to save each other, in the way that young people do, sharing out whatever...
Socializing the Dark Web
...a platform for exchanging ideas, debating point of views, and help expand people’s knowledge and understanding of other cultures. How did Galaxy2 come to be? I created Galaxy2 out of...
Desecration Hardware, 4 (1920s Odeon Glass Fringe Chandelier)
...got hotter and we rotted and the light of afternoon tried hard to make it through the fibrous leaves and plunging gobs but succeeded only in being a green dusk...
Consider the Humblebrag
...idol hearthrob. Tried not to talk too much or eat too much. Succeeded at neither!” Particularly popular are the 15-minutes-of-fame variety, like @ReallyVirtual’s “Uh oh, now I’m the guy who...
What's the Matter Boss, We Sick?
...Koroma’s cause. As these kinds of mistakes plague their presidencies, these leaders have tried to assert symbolic control of the situation and thereby preserve the system they have made and...
Editors' Note, Vol. 36: Stars
...you navigate only by your libido. Or if you feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of...
Towards a 'Moral' Assassination Model
...most transparent administration in history ' line, this time in a 'fireside hangout' hosted by Google: '[W]hat I tried to do coming into the office was to create a legal...