The Taste of Earth
...that people from South Asia have been here for 5000 years. I pointed out that culture changes and we cannot make a direct link between what may have happened 5000...
Poems From Guantanamo
...checks.) For the purposes of the war on terror, the government tried to designate Guantanamo extraterritorial, out of reach of the U.S. legal system. The Supreme Court disagreed, in 2008....
The Art of Conjecturing
...after passing through all the gates, halls, and guard stations, you could finally receive full authorization!” The young Lem never tried to produce the blank form granting full authorization hidden...
Beauty and Infidelity, Part III: The Other Woman
...that her steely expression belied a map of tears. He and I broke up a month later. I heard through friends that he tried to get back together with her,...
Hackers Gonna Hack
...company says they’re going to protect it, and I don’t think consumers would look too kindly on an organization that said, “A hacker tried to tell us about this thing...
The Silver Lining
In a break from constructing predictive models, Nate Silver crafted an entirely new universe to answer the question “What if Hillary won?” Following a prolonged radio silence, this latest dispatch from Earth 2 explains why we haven’t heard from him since.
The Unmanageable University
...commitment to turning the UC into a more efficient factory, by shifting to online education, prioritizing teaching over research, and pushing students through as quickly as possible. The call for...
Rome, 1974
...the photos after, it really was like the whole piazza had been made into a place for rubbish, with junk all over the ground, and although my parents tried to...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...when the police tried to evict encampments or sweep protesters off the street. It is always tempting to draw direct historical comparisons between past and present social movements. But one...
When Blogger Comes Marching Home
...do to minimize distractions would be a good thing. I tried it again the next day and found that I focused a little better, that I felt more "on." ...
Mara
...not complain if she finishes the food. Six months ago, a hawk tried to snatch Damaris, who has always looked small and light. Zipporah fought off the hawk, but the...
"Venice drowning! Venice drowning! Venice drowning!"
...brief note: all hitherto existing illustrations and popular culture descriptions of mermaids have totally fucking lied. Totally. Because they always show them as sexless and assholeless, as sexless as angels...
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
New lows
...two different ideas, somehow conflictual, but as w/ music, 'news exceed reality' (thomas bernhard) and, simultaneously, fades in the next spumous moment. non-stop.“ […] Guy Debord: “The spectacle presents itself...
The Slopes of Davos
...professor Chris Washburne and his band taught the audience how to survive neoliberal uncertainty with the “spontaneous creativity that we have inherited from the African-American culture.” Quoting the early soloist...
Said is Dead. Long Live Said! @ City College 9/27
...of war and terror. This panel brings together individuals working in a range of contemporary activist-intellectual forms – art, music, poetry, journalism, social media, and academic scholarship – to consider...