Eileen

Upstate New York, as anything north of New York City is now errantly called, can feel like a place in eternal transition—gentrifying, in a sense, as the city bleeds further and further into the countryside, but still a little feral. Nature isn’t always so easily displaced. Earlier in the day, I had shown Cottrill a video of an enormous wild turkey

The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino, dropping a blackout curtain over the windows to block out the world, except the blackout curtain is a screen, showing too much of the world, too quickly. As Richard Seymour writes in the book “The Twittering Machine,” this avoidance of time’s actual flow, this compulsion towar

It’s a very cheesy phrase, but we sometimes ask, “How can we make being smart cool?”. That is, how can we make casual research—seeking out new knowledge just for the sake of it—a part of an everyday process for a normal internet user?

Danielle Aubert collected, scanned, and compiled 100 used copies of Ursula Le Guin’s 1970s sci-fi novel The Dispossessed to make Marking the Dispossessed — a version of the book that features annotations and marginalia only. We don’t see the words so we can focus on how others have experienced them in the past instead.