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We are now proud to announce our upcoming second issue, Anti-Sisyphus. Pre-order on our webstore today.
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In our inaugural issue of original essays, fiction, poetry, and art, we explore how technology impacts the human condition.
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by Abby Cartus There’s a quotation often attributed to Big Bill Haywood, co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World: “I’ve never read Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capital all over me.” Usually considered to be a literal nod to Haywood’s long history of bruising encounters with the shock troops of capital—police…
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by Steven Monacelli
If philosopher Will Durant’s assertion that “we are what we repeatedly do” is true, then let’s face it: we are becoming increasingly machine-like through our near-constant interactions with technology.
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by Seth Garben
… Well, I was there when the spinning game was invented. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say, I was there when the spinning game came into being. For to imply that any one person at that fateful dinner party authored it, or even to assert that it was a “group effort”, would be misleading, would border even on the hubristic.
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Trust comes with daring to put the ethical obligations of mutual respect before politics. This is what being in good relations means. As a Cherokee, that is what matters to me. I cannot help but ask if Elizabeth Warren is actually demonstrating that she is in good relations with us.
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by Daniel Uncapher Cover image (The Atlantic/Getty): “Because of overcapacity at launch, over 10,000 bike-share service bicycles were abandoned at a bicycle graveyard on January 13, 2018 in Xiamen, Fujian, China.” All other photos by author, unless otherwise noted. Revelations in Personal Mobility at the Santa Monica Pier I came to California in November…
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On the floor in Atlanta, as DSA delegates passed back and forth in the halls and sat outside for a smoke or some fresh air, there was an undeniable display of humanity and solidarity.
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Arîn Mîrkan is immortal,
lighting up the death star,
setting on ten centuries like the monasteries aflame,
the brave little sternums all become
shields to tanks and heavy guns
Delegates of the Democratic Socialists of America convened in Atlanta for their 2019 National Convention, where they overwhelmingly voted in favor of resolutions that, among other things, call for open borders and endorsing a Green New Deal program.
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The table was set for carnivores,
plush reds, and cynical, published bores—
darling, my subtle, every barb and bent
look was over what someone wrote or spent
Poem and photograph by Fargo Tbakhi. when power decreed that body un-grievable, everyone made mourning like a pet. we filled apartments with chatter. we made heaven our subtext. naseem his body draped across the border fence. the tunnels under gaza overflowed with the things we smuggled in (food, bullets, fire, nothing) and out (music,…
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