Ginsberg’s politics were consistent only in how he proclaimed whatever it took to convince his willing following that there was something dangerous in attending a poetry reading.
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A Gangrenous Appendage: Zionism in American Jewry
Zionism is the gangrenous appendage to the body politic of American Jewry. It sits, unexamined and untreated, festering.
Read MoreDevices
The office had yet to come alive, and only the secretaries and some low-level mail runners were milling about. Mrs. Pass led Eve to her desk, which was just outside Mr. Singleman’s office. It was absent one glaring appliance.
Read MoreAll My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I Part IV: The Anxious and the Bored
Without delving into senseless techno-pessimism or generational abstractions, we have to ask what this technology is doing to us, and how it structures our lives.
Read MorePoor Readers, Bad Mystics: Alex Honnold and the Heights of Masculinity
Depending on how you see it, Alex Honnold has two ways to die: by falling off a mountain, or falling out of the frame.
Read MoreAll My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I Part III: Two Houses
The establishment of the new role, the consumer of computers for the home, was only made possible by the proliferation of new form factors and roles for computers.
Read MoreNotified Off The Wagon
Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are already serious problems that are poised to be exacerbated by becoming horrific bedfellows with digital addictions.
Read MoreApril 15, 2017
25,000 in San Francisco. / Twenty five thousand people marching with / A “Trump chicken” down Market Street
Read MoreAll My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I Part II: A Genealogy of Silicon
Computers were fun once. They were fun in the way that rally cars are fun: for the people who got deeply into them, the real joy derived from learning how they worked.
Read MoreThe Rules for Black Women Dating White Men in 2019
If you decide to date a white boy / You are no longer pro black.
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