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.
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The Rules for Black Women Dating White Men in 2019
by Ajah Hales If you decide to date a white boy,You are no longer pro black.It does not matter that you were on the ground in East St. Louis,That you stood vigil for Troy and Trayvon long before Black Lives Matter? was even a questionIt does not matterThatBlack Lives Matter! was always your answerIt doesn’t […]
MoreAll My Friends Live in My Phone and So Do I
Very recently I found myself adrift, a ghost untethered from the world.
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WE COULD GET DRUNK IN THIS FIELD BECAUSE WE’RE IN A FIELD & WE’RE IN LOVE & WHAT ELSE WOULD WE DO?
by Nicholas Bon I want to find the way through every tunnel— us not ever stopping for gas, tires always at proper pressure, this all awash in new light. I want to shut this machine down so we can grow tomatoes in its ugly chambers. Nicholas Bon is the author of My Circus Mouth (Ghost […]
MoreA List of All Suspicious Deaths of Ferguson Activists
A string of deaths of prominent Ferguson activists and their relatives, as well as others who were murdered in a similar fashion, has left lingering questions about the circumstances. Given the recent detainment (with no justification given) of Iranian state TV journalist Marzieh Hashemi, who was working on a documentary about the murders, it’s worth […]
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by Tyler Walicek This fall saw the completion of my first transcontinental road trip: a two-month jaunt out of San Francisco that took my girlfriend and I along the snaking coastlines of Oregon and Washington and into the sylvan quietude of Vancouver, B.C., then on a cannonball run across the Midwest and the Great Lakes […]
MoreONE HUNDRED KNIGHTS RIDE IN, ARMOR RATTLING, SWORDS DRAWN, AND I’M JUST SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY WITH THIS
by Nicholas Bon We have to accept the things we cannot change, they say. Though I guess I could overturn this desk in a fit of spontaneous ecstasy or rage or something else felt strongly. I could spin in ridiculous arcs and destroy this entire museum. Maybe scientists could coax electricity from my manic body. Maybe this […]
MoreThe Ableist Logic of Primitivism: A Critique of “Ecoextremist” Thought
In his recent article for New York Magazine, Children of Ted, John H. Richardson ruminates on the recent rise of a fringe political movement centered on the writings of Ted Kaczynski, the ecoterrorist widely known as “the Unabomber.” On its face, Richardson’s article amounts to an eccentric human-interest story for a mainstream publication. Yet, in typical […]
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