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Skin Feeling

By Sofia SamatarSeptember 25, 2015
What it is to be encountered as a surface, to be constantly exposed as something you are not.
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Character Assassination

By Ben GabrielMay 4, 2015
Though they foreground models over characters, systems-oriented video games can't evade the issues of identity politics
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Boom and Rust

By Meagan DayNovember 20, 2014
A Gold Rush ghost town embalms the risks that haunt all California settlements.
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Vice is Hip

By Jesse BarronNovember 19, 2014
Inherent Vice evokes the possibility of a different California, one in which the hippies beat the cops
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Thirst Trap

By Lauren O'NealNovember 6, 2014
The Silicon Valley initiative to split California into six pieces was a stunt, but the water issues it drew from are real
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The Oakland Raiders

By Susie CagleJanuary 6, 2014
While the housing markets of many post-industrial cities are still suffering, Oakland is absorbing the hopes, dreams, and dollars of a California tech boom that won’t be confined to San Francisco and Silicon Valley
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