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Daniel Uncapher is a Sparks Fellow at Notre Dame, where he received his MFA, and an incoming Ph.D student in creative writing at the University of Utah. A disabled bisexual from North Mississippi, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, The Carolina Quarterly, Penn Review, and others. View his website here.
  • Hack A Bird, Save A Landfill: Reclaiming the Commons from Silicon Valley

    Hack A Bird, Save A Landfill: Reclaiming the Commons from Silicon Valley

    I came to California in November 2017 to visit my partner’s family, where I laid my eyes on the Pacific for the first time at the Santa Monica Pier. It was to be a short walk. My back, leg, and ankle were broken in a car accident, so I can only walk for about twenty…

  • The Hypersurveillance Crusades

    The Hypersurveillance Crusades

    by Daniel Uncapher. Police are violence workers. The license to violence, like the license to commit rape, daylight abduction, and secret surveillance, has been granted by the state in exclusive perpetuity to the police, who are expected to use these powers to bring people into the justice system.