The world has been created a few minutes ago
...bridge. we tried on some panties. she’s reading lunar park. i told her it was a big mistake. the beginning is fine but then he starts to see ghosts everywhere....
Digital Dark Spaces
...is not essentially so different from the culture of cruising that bourgeois gay men created in public urinals and in the cloakroom at the House of Lords. Though the sex...
World of Weathercraft
...seeding to aid agriculture and reservoirs is a common, though scientifically dubious, practice. Weather control is a common plot device in science fiction, showing up in films like The Avengers,...
One If by Land, Two If by Sea
...high-profile border operation in San Diego like the one that had just been tried in El Paso (Operation Blockade, later Hold the Line). The implementation of Operation Gatekeeper in San...
Beyond MLK
...been called out by activists repeatedly for his riot-shaming and victim-blaming, yet rather than apologizing, the great patriarch has tried to bad-jacket them as “provocateurs.” But the street kids made...
Stars
...feel you’ve tried everything here, move to another planet entirely: In “No Spin Zone,” Erik Petigura discusses the recent boom of exoplanet discoveries. Show More Virgo: It is an understudied...
Pfizer Walk With Me
As COVID continues, pharmaceutical companies increasingly assume forms of public statecraft
A Week Late and A Story Short: "Whispering Trees"
...and asked to discuss oral literature. We didn't. After a few false starts, the discussion finally found itself contemplating the literary and aesthetic values of rap music and slam poetry....
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...
City of the Moon
...this pedigree. … We need to be very careful, we are turning into what we have always tried to resist. These guys are not only threatening us, they are informing...
Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
London (Poverty)
Referencing the history of high-end design magazines, Thatcherism, and London’s financialized housing market, Guo looks at the historical conditions which produced her current “world of interiors.”
A Country Disappeared
...education system (controlled by the teacher’s union) and open PEMEX, the state-owned oil company and Mexico’s main source of income, to private investment. Buried under these sweeping structural adjustments, and...
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
...epic’s prodigious sway over the popular Hindu culture and its unique relationship to history has made this possible. In the West, one encounters the epic as a literary genre that...
The Will to Wall
...thousands of unauthorized migrants have perished since the mid-1990s, and elsewhere. He recounts one particularly horrific case, that of 15-year-old Felani Khatun, who in January 2011 tried to surreptitiously cross...