Vol. 71 Editors' Note: Escape
How the hell do I get out of here?
Can’t See the Wood for the Trees
Are trees worth more standing or chopped down as wood? From Marx’s analysis of wood theft to carbon credit programs, the value of forests as assets continues to shift.
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...
& (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....
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...
I Felt Myself
An excerpt from The Ribbon at Olympia’s Throat, translated by Christine Pichini
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?...
#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...
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...
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...
Empire Records
...while Muslim must have been dots crying out to be connected. In order to do so, it tried to turn Ould Slahi’s itinerant nature against him, by targeting him at...
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...