1-900-9099-CRY • A man eats nothing but monkey pellets for a week (2006). • Two government employees allegedly eat nothing but beige nutrient slurry during the shutdown (2019). • The Kola Superdeep Borehole In the 1970s, the Soviet government tried to see how deep they could drill into the Earth’s crust. • A Hole In [...]
“Transition Zone” was published in collaboration with Casa Tres Patios. The Spanish-language version of the essay can be found here. —Eds. “Zona de transición” se publicó en colaboración con Casa Tres Patios. La version del ensayo en español se encuentra aquí. — Editores Seminar Urgent Questions: Causes, effects and possibilities of war and peace in [...]
Systems just aren’t made of bricks they’re mostly made of people. — Crass Judicial, linguistic, medical, educational, ecological, economic, geographic, technological, temporal. How can we make the covert, socially-constructed nature of these systems visible, so that we can alter, re-make, or destroy them for greater individual and collective autonomy? Casual Learning Environment No. 8, 2018; [...]
Once a year for the past four years, I’ve had pleasure of teaching a class in internet art at Stanford. It has a special place in my heart because it seems to select for students with a good sense of humor and a high threshold for weirdness — but it has also proven an interesting [...]
Photo: Mikiko Suzuki. In the late 1970s, the café minor in Kichijoji, Tokyo, was my Cabaret Voltaire. Cabaret Voltaire did not last half a year, but minor was open for several. No Lenins visited as they did the Cabaret, but a visionary rock critic in my mind divided music into “our side” and “the other [...]
Pause for breath — from the rush, the panic attack — to BART, to work again. Shared experience felt in the lapse between destinations. Monuments are layered onto monuments. Cement walls of buffed graffiti, all inscribed to her. Say her name: Nia Wilson. Echoes thundering beneath the freeway. All signs of grief removed, but the [...]
Octavia E. Butler, Notes on Writing, part of Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories at the Huntington. Photo: Carolina A. Miranda Carolina A. Miranda and Siddhartha Mitter are two of the most insightful arts journalists working today. Between them, they have bylines most everywhere, including briefly overlapping at WNYC/New York Public Radio (where I was working when I [...]
Step 1: To apply for asylum in the US, you must be physically present in the US or seeking entry into the US at a port of entry. — The Affirmative Asylum Process Queridxs, Before our grandmothers knew our mothers’ names they made the choice to orient our families, and our future, toward the North. [...]