Zionism is the gangrenous appendage to the body politic of American Jewry. It sits, unexamined and untreated, festering.
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All 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 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 MoreAll My Friends Live in My Phone and So Do I Part I: Irresistible Impulse
Very recently I found myself adrift, a ghost untethered from the world. I had lost my phone.
Read 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.
Read MoreChecked Out on the Grand Tour
As profit snakes its way into all our enclaves of the personal, we become consumers moving through dehumanized spaces instead of participants in the reverie of communality
Read 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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