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...
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...
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,...
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.
Champagne Wishes and Crypto Dreams
Of course there are crypto memoirs. But how do they theorize history?
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." ...
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...
"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...
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....
From Autonomen to Antifa
Exploring the roots of modern antifa in the German Autonomen movement of the eighties: an interview with George Katsiaficas
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...
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...
Assemblage Required
...that forced the germ of the present moment into precipitous bloom. “The poor little culture grew up too fast,” she writes. All of a sudden, it had outgrown its old...