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Editor’s Note: Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist and the author of “Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age” and “Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take
James Erwin, 37, works for a financial services firm in Des Moines, Iowa, writing software manuals. He’s been doing that for a couple of years, and he enjoys it. It’s a pretty low-stress job for a per
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Fiction rarely influences politics anymore, either because fewer people read it or because it has fewer things to say. Yet novels have affected America in large and unsubtle ways: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Jungle shaped the contours of the national…
If you’re critically engaged enough to be hashingthrough the contours of this column’s ongoing debate, you’re likelyalso sentient enough to be wracked by one of our generation’s keypsychological affli
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: ᔥ means “via” ↬ means “hat tip” It’s completely misguided. Firs
This post is partially building on the argument that Slavoj Žižek eventually makes at the end of his recent talk on The Wire , a talk which is, at least, usefully wrong about lots of things, and strikingly insightful about a few . In season five of The Wire, Jimmy McNulty invents a serial killer and…
Illustration by Steve Powers The Dungeon Master has detention. We wait at his house by the county road. The Dungeon Master’s little brother Marco puts out corn chips and orange soda. Marco is a paladi
RICHARD DREW/AP Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the m
Today would have been legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday, had he not passed away at the age of 47 due to cirrhosis. The de facto leader and most famous member of the Beat movement, Ker
Illustration by Charlie Powell. In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programm
T he first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamm
Convergences Credit... Illustration by O.O.P.S. One thing that struck me about the 9/11 footage shown during last year’s anniversary was that in 2001, the people on New York City’s sidewalks had no sm
Excerpt ‘The Long Goodbye’ Chapter One: Love My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three p.m. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don’t know the exact time of her death, because none o
Robert Crumb asked me to say that he lives in Albania, to discourage would-be pilgrims from beating a path to his doorstep. He doesn’t, but his medieval hamlet is so far from the United States in ever
There have been better bands than the Smiths , but there has never been a more perfect band, in the sense of having a distinct, deliberate, powerful aesthetic shaped by the tensions of collaboration,
Jeremy Dean, Wealth of Nations, 2011. Courtesy the artist and {CTS} creativethriftshop, NY . When I tell people what we are doing, they want to hear about the room where you produce. I tell them that
Swinging Modern Sounds #33: The Sweet Spot For an entire decade, between 1975 and 1985, Brian Eno could do no wrong. In fact, even for the four or five years before 1975 he could do no wrong. If you c
My whole foray into journalism arose from a misapprehension. I wanted to be a writer, and I thought the most important thing about being a writer was seeing your work in print. Becoming a newspaper re
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Rybka , a powerful chess program, was stripped last year of its titles and its author publicly disgraced. Declared a plagiarist by the International Computer Games Association, Vasik Rajlich was also
Photograph by melanie cook A decade ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggested that parents limit TV consumption by children under two years of age. The recommendations were based as much on co
I f there’s one thing I learned in graduate school, it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“They fuck you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.”) At the time, I was a new mo
For All Mankind: A Trip to the Moon Essays — Jul 14, 2009 Share T he decade-long Apollo program was the largest and most expensive undertaking in the history of man that wasn’t devoted to a war. Durin
I ’ll never forget that first step on the moon. I was at the home of a high school classmate in Fort Worth on the evening of July 20, 1969. The Eagle had landed that afternoon, and we’d been waiting f
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked,…
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The Cancer in Occupy Posted on Feb 6, 2012 By Chris Hedges Truthdig The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. T
Explaining the GAPS prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" / Thomas Cowan , MD, is a physician in private practice in San Francisco, California, a board member of the Weston A. Pric
One day in early 2010 , the internet message board I Love Music began discussing the Pazz and Jop poll, which the Village Voice had recently published on its website. The Voice has conducted Pazz and
November 21, 2011 at 11:02am Home Dear Eva, It will be almost a month since you wrote to me and you have possibly forgotten your state of mind (I doubt it though). You seem the same as always, and bei
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PRESERVING THE SCELSI IMPROVISATIONS by Frances-Marie Uitti "Tempo" October 1995
Giacinto Scelsi was a master improviser. He created hundreds of hours of music, which he originally…
Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible? By Lloyd Grove Why Did CNN Make Lester Holt Invisible? By Lloyd Grove To borrow one of CNN’s advertising slogans, the cable outlet decided to “go there” during Monday night’s great debate.If you depended on that particular news source, as I did, to watch…
Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds grow over the old markers, and time humbles even a rich man’s grave. The most…
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