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...
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." ...
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....
Hackers Gonna Hack
...dental technician who had tried to alert Patterson Dental that their software left patient records exposed. Still, bounty prices are often criticized for valuing bugs -- and the labor of...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...protest and nearly a hundred thousand came; many attempted to storm the building site and occupy it. As the police tried to drive protesters away with clubs and water cannons,...
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...
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
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,...
The Unmanageable University
...attracting student protest across the state and consistent opposition by Governor Jerry Brown. Yet both Brown and Napolitano have tried to use students as pawns in their game. Their decisions...
"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
Mara
...hands grab the gitaruru, move it from side to side. You relish the music of rice grains moving against each other, the counterpoint of rice moving against the gitaruru’s fibres....
Dating Games
...between friends. When a “date” invites you up to listen to records, for instance, you can no longer answer based on how you feel about music; you must now answer...
and that alone is love, that which never becomes something else
...the new plan. we picked up our car at the budget lot, we drove to hayley’s apartment, it was on mccarthy drive, near wilshire boulevard. hayley works at universal music,...
TNI REX (2)
...Government on arts education and the culture of its citizens." Rob Horning, Executive Editor Music: "Dream Gerrard" by Traffic Like much of Traffic's late-period output, this song, from its last...
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...