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The American Garden in Nineteenth-Century Canton
“The enterprising American cultivator … leaves nothing untried which human industry and skill can possibly accomplish. Whether in the simple...
Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
Since his Mars trilogy became the most highly Hugo-decorated book series of the 1990s, reviews of Kim Stanley Robinson’s work...
Amitav Ghosh: The Great Derangement
French philosopher Jean-Pierre Dupuy writes: “If we destroy nature is it because we hate nature? Of course not—we merely hate one another.”
He may well be right.
Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions, 1965–2016
From psychedelic interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland to a hypnotizing drag king roaming the streets of Manhattan, Adrian Piper: A...
7-Eleven Glazed Honey Bun
This winter I spent two months in Los Angeles, hoping to experience the United States in a new way and...
Gray Harbor
What such water goods reveal—only to persons close enough to smell the clinging dregs of seaweed or willing to caress the faux-leather handbag tucked into a cellophane sleeve—are the sentient negotiations of supple conquest.
USB-C
In Q4 2013 the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, a consortium of technology companies including HP, Intel, and Microsoft, announced that...
Supernumerary
In August 2017, I was a passenger—a “supernumerary,” in shipping lingo—aboard a cargo ship that sailed the North Sea’s perimeter before crossing the Atlantic Ocean: Le Havre to Antwerp to Rotterdam to Bremerhaven and over Scotland to Charleston, South Carolina. These photographs and notes document the journey.