In our inaugural issue of original essays, fiction, poetry, and art, we explore how technology impacts the human condition.
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by Ridwan Tijani
I sing Won Kere Si Number Wa in three voices. Fatai rolling dollar / a philosopher of the transcendental lyric / a man with gastric problems & whenever I’m bloated, I think of him.
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by Michael Malloy
Part VI: Finding Our Phones Again
When we talk about the future today, we envision the valleys and peaks of the modern world in sharp relief. Our flirtation with inadvertent self-extinction through climate collapse brings to some despair, to others a perverse and nihilistic joy. Still others reject in principle that the danger is real.
Read Moreby Makalani Bandele
take a feeling
black people ain’t really felt in 600 years,
say freedom
but, sing liberty.
by Nomax Jodevaski
Isn’t this like an empire or something?
What’s that mean if you can’t kill whoever
you want?
by Tyler Walicek
This article appears in our first print issue, Pattern Machines.
I have been swept up in many addictions over the course of my life, as we all have in one way or another. Yet few have been as insidious and bewildering as my entanglement in the compulsive loops that drive the modern Internet.
Read Moreby Prince Bush
The Asian Sheepshead Wrasse wakes
As a woman, rested as a man.
Fish are fanatical in their fervor for
Being vulnerable…
by Miles Klee and Madeline Gobbo
The man under the bed held his breath. The opening wasn’t wide enough for a body, but it looked like an escape. The man hadn’t heard the alarm in time to make his. The wobbly electric sobs made him want to call his mother. He would be late for their appointment, but he’d never intended to go.
Read Moreby Dakotah Jennifer
I am painfully aware of how alive I am… or am not. I am painfully aware of things ending & beginning. I am painfully aware of tiptoeing down the hall at night. There is no hall. There is no night.
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Part V: Keeping the Lights On
by Michael Malloy
I’m getting tired of using the word “technology” in this series. It feels so vaguely retrospective, like I’m referring to some historical phenomenon, and not, for instance, the laptop I’m writing on right now.
Read Moreby Dominick Knowles
Dominick Knowles is a queer poet and Ph.D. student in English at Brandeis University. Their areas of study include modernist literature, Marxist critique, and the poetry of the radical Left.
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