At first, users paid real money for the upkeep of virtual chickens, sheep, bees, and cattle, earning cash back in the game by keeping the animals alive. Riding high on the good publicity, Farm Bank soon went one step further, launching real-life farms…
Read MoreThere are two competing perspectives about the cause of the opioid explosion, and they lead to different policy prescriptions…
Read Moreby Leah Henrickson Introduction In 1984, a curious book was released: The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed. With its bright red cover and substantial size (22.6 x 20.3 x 1.5 centimetres), it stood out on any shelf. What was more striking, however, was the front cover’s claim that the book was “a bizarre and fantastic journey…
Read MoreBy the time many writers were ready to seriously engage with surveillance capitalism, it had already redescribed their profession, along with the world…
Read MoreUp until COVID-19 changed everything, I’d been pretty strict in regards to screen time for my sons. They earned video game time…
Read MoreThe first time Edwina Fray, TV cook and punk gourmet celebrity, saw the green dragon, it was stood on her shocking pink marbled kitchen work surface…
Read MoreOne spring day in 1629, legions of devils came to call upon Father Urbain Grandier. If we’re to believe his accusers, the priest respond with enthusiasm at the arrival of his demonic charge.
Read MoreNot long after he arrived in Machilipatnam, Thomas Bowrey began to wonder what it was that the people of Machilipatnam were smoking.
Read MoreThe recent chaos at the Iowa Democratic caucus was exacerbated by eager Anons responding to a 4chan call to “clog the phone lines”…
Read MoreThere is a certain beauty in personal disappointment, that is the disappointment we feel liable for ourselves. Knowing that if you miss a goal
Read MoreYou hear stories, growing up, of what you were like as a baby. You used to love to suck on lemon slices, you slept with your face buried in the cat’s fur, you spent every car ride trying to wiggle out of your car seat to look out the window
Read MoreBad girls sleep with bad boys. They get pregnant and, when everyone finds out, they have to leave school. Only married people are allowed to sleep together…
Read MoreI don’t go to poems for skillful ease or what’s rote. I come seeking an empathic witness, what the Sufi calls ruhul seyrani—the moving soul, frequently illegible.
Read MoreA recent study of users of novel psychedelic substances found, probably to no-one’s surprise, that they are more likely than average to be male, white…
Read MoreWhitman needed not a mere celebrity endorsement, not just an appreciative aesthete, but a lover in Russia; a passionate, devoted reader who would accept him without judgment.
Read MoreWhen I was still quite young, eight, nine, ten years old, a friend of mine and I took up the idea of making little magazines for each other…
Read MoreBarthes says – “a language is a corpus of prescriptions and habits []” / In the inverted braille of depression, an induction of breaches. / A mnemonic where you can touch the friction between speaking and meaning…
Read MoreAlessio Bolzoni’s sophomore effort finds him intimate with the human form. The photographer’s new book, Abuse II, The Uncanny, features tense shots…
Read MoreWombats captured the attention of English naturalists as soon as they found out about them from early settlers, explorers, and naturalists at the time of first contact…
Read MoreIs there any way to intervene usefully or meaningfully in public debate, in what the extremely online Twitter users are with gleeful irony calling the ‘discourse’ of the present moment?
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