Ports of Call
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...
Port Authorities
Mere mention of the word “airport” may trigger certain emotional responses. Some may not be positive. Airports are the unpleasant part of the journey, the necessary evil. But what if airports become the destination?
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...
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.