The Fame Game
...against moderators, other users, my family. So we tried to pre-screen the secrets, where every secret submitted had to be looked at by a moderator before it could be shared,...
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...
Just Friends
...the way creative technological disruption, in the form of social media, has tried to make friendship just another platform for self-fashioning consumption. There could be another side to this antagonism....
Lies and Videotape
...you’ll feel like we tried napalm out on you, at your expense. We can only give you a hint of an idea of how napalm works. In both films, the...
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...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...conversation he had with Claude Eatherly. Eatherly was the pilot of the reconnaissance mission that checked weather conditions above Hiroshima and gave the go-ahead to the bombing. He later tried...
Survival in Audre Lorde
...In my practice in Poetry I have tried to produce a grammar in which Black existence might be the thought and not the unthought; might be. —Dionne Brand, “An...
A film in the catacinema
...the soft clatter of those ghost-rid horse who whipped back and forth across the icy ground and to the noise of how when they tried to stop this mad stampede...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
Communiqué on the Liberation of Hind’s Hall
#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,...
Square and Circle: The Logic of Occupy
...of the camp whenever they tried to enter. But attempts to mediate the conflict essentially failed, and S. seemed immune to all reason. One day, after he had started another...
The Evil to Come
For a brief moment, each one of us saw the possibility of the end of capitalism rather than the end of the world
Nina Bhatti, Founder, Kokko Beauty, Los Altos, California
...to a makeup artist and they look at your skin and characterize what product is going to work. I took the manual process and tried to automate it. So once...
Blue Skies
...to footage, the “truth” is unlikely to drift too far. Police departments have long tried to predict singular episodes of crime through general patterns and data. The real advantage of...
Deerly Held Beliefs: Feminist biology and white-tailed deer population control
...long-term immunocontraception vaccine, has also been experimentally used. Local municipalities with overabundant deer have tried tubal ligation and surgically removing ovaries, techniques that cost tens of thousands of dollars per...